axone
\ak.son\
The verdict
“axone” is uncommon French (frequency #99,891 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,891
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie allongée d’un neurone qui permet le passage de l’information sous forme d’impulsions électriques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-axone · axone · French
axone · rank #99,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,891
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ayan
Nearest frequency peer: ayan (+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 « axone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attirances
attirances
115 corpus weight
- attributaire
attributaire
114 corpus weight
- avertisse
avertisse
112 corpus weight
- axone
axone
110 corpus weight
- ayan
ayan
109 corpus weight
- Azor
Azor
108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « axone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | axone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.son\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « axone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
axone is uncommon French at frequency #99,891 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ak.son\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie allongée d’un neurone qui permet le passage de l’information sous forme d’impulsions électriques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for axone in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is axone, spelled A-X-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie allongée d’un neurone qui permet le passage de l’information sous forme d’impulsions électriques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how axone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gaine isolante que constitue la stratification myélinique est interrompue à intervalles réguliers par des étranglements (nœuds de Ranvier) au niveau desquels l’axone est dénudé.
Ainsi le neurone présente une polarisation fonctionnelle : la circulation des informations y est unidirectionnelle, cellulipète dans les dendrites et cellulifuge dans l’axone.
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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