arthroscopie
\aʁ.tʁɔ.skɔ.pi\
The verdict
“arthroscopie” is uncommon French (frequency #90,419 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,419
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique qui permet de voir l’articulation, d’effectuer des prélèvements ou de réaliser de petits gestes chirurgicaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arthroscopie · arthroscopie · French
arthroscopie · rank #90,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,419
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrêtions
Nearest frequency peer: arrêtions (-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 « arthroscopie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arracheur
arracheur
9,586 corpus weight
- arrérages
arrérages
9,584 corpus weight
- arrêtions
arrêtions
9,583 corpus weight
- arthroscopie
arthroscopie
9,582 corpus weight
- arthurienne
arthurienne
9,581 corpus weight
- aréole
aréole
9,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arthroscopie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arthroscopie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.tʁɔ.skɔ.pi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arthroscopie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arthroscopie is uncommon French at frequency #90,419 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.tʁɔ.skɔ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique qui permet de voir l’articulation, d’effectuer des prélèvements ou de réaliser de petits gestes chirurgicaux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for arthroscopie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arthroscopie, spelled A-R-T-H-R-O-S-C-O-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Technique qui permet de voir l’articulation, d’effectuer des prélèvements ou de réaliser de petits gestes chirurgicaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arthroscopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
la méthode a été étendue aux opérations des hernies abdominales, aux arthroscopies du genou, aux reconstructions du sein, à des interventions esthétiques, mandibulaires, vasculaires, à des gestes de neurostimulation cérébrale pour la maladie de Parkinson, à des séances de lithotripsie pour casser des calculs rénaux, à des coloscopies, des fibroscopies bro…
le professeur Kenji Takagi réalisa la 1ʳᵉ arthroscopie en 1919 au Japon.
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.
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