bacille de Koch

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bacille de Koch is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.sil də kɔx\. 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: "Bactérie responsable des tuberculoses animales et humaine, une mycobactérie aérobie gram + et ziehl + et qui sécrète une endotoxine, la tuberculine connue sous plusieurs variantes selon les espèces.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bacille de Koch 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 Koch, spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -K-O-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.