aromathérapie

\a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\

/\a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\/ noun

The verdict

“aromathérapie” is uncommon French (frequency #73,720 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,720
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usage des parfums et des essences de plantes dans le but d’améliorer la santé et le bien-être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aromatherapie · aromathérapie · French

aromathérapie · rank #73,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,720
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aries

Nearest frequency peer: aries (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « aromathérapie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aromathérapie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aromathérapie
PropertyValue
Headwordaromathérapie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\
Letters13
Frequency rank#73,720
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aromathérapie » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aromathérapietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « aries » (#73,719), « arpentant » (#73,721), « arquebusiers » (#73,722). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aromathérapie » est au #73,720. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aromathérapie is uncommon French at frequency #73,720 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Usage des parfums et des essences de plantes dans le but d’améliorer la santé et le bien-être.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aromathérapie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aromathérapie, spelled A-R-O-M-A-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Usage des parfums et des essences de plantes dans le but d’améliorer la santé et le bien-être.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aromathérapie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Enfin, de nombreuses approches médicales ou paramédicales sont à disposition pour améliorer la santé des yeux, depuis « le massage yoga jusqu’à l’acupuncture, en passant par le shiatsu, la phytothérapie, l’aromathérapie, la mésothérapie, l’hypnose et les remèdes de grand-mère, à l’instar du sachet de thé noir infusé en cas d’inflammation », liste la docte…
  2. C’est grâce au docteur Jean Valnet que l’aromathérapie prit enfin son essor dans les années cinquante.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aromathérapie"?
"aromathérapie" is spelled A-R-O-M-A-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\.
What does "aromathérapie" mean?
As a noun, "aromathérapie" means: Usage des parfums et des essences de plantes dans le but d’améliorer la santé et le bien-être.
How do you pronounce "aromathérapie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aromathérapie" is \a.ʁɔ.ma.te.ʁa.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aromathérapie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list