bacille de Flexner

/\ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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bacille de Flexner is aFrenchnoun. It means: Synonyme ancien de Shigella flexneri, bactérie pathogène responsable de la dysenterie bacillaire. Pronounced \ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\.

Key facts for bacille de Flexner
PropertyValue
Headwordbacille de Flexner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bacille de Flexner is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bacille de Flexner is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonyme ancien de Shigella flexneri, bactérie pathogène responsable de la dysenterie bacillaire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bacille de Flexner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bacille de Flexner, spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -F-L-E-X-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonyme ancien de Shigella flexneri, bactérie pathogène responsable de la dysenterie bacillaire.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bacille de Flexner"?
"bacille de Flexner" is spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -F-L-E-X-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\.
What does "bacille de Flexner" mean?
As a noun, "bacille de Flexner" means: Synonyme ancien de Shigella flexneri, bactérie pathogène responsable de la dysenterie bacillaire.
How do you pronounce "bacille de Flexner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bacille de Flexner" is \ba.sil də flɛks.nɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bacille de Flexner" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.