bilharziose
\bi.laʁ.zjoz\
The verdict
“bilharziose” is uncommon French (frequency #99,918 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,918
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parasitose provoquée par la bilharzie, un petit ver appelé aussi schistosome qui provoque la schistosomiase ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bilharziose · bilharziose · French
bilharziose · rank #99,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,918
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bilder
Nearest frequency peer: Bilder (-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 « bilharziose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bibliophilie
bibliophilie
86 corpus weight
- biefs
biefs
85 corpus weight
- Bilder
Bilder
84 corpus weight
- bilharziose
bilharziose
83 corpus weight
- biosécurité
biosécurité
82 corpus weight
- bitmap
bitmap
80 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bilharziose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bilharziose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.laʁ.zjoz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bilharziose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bilharziose is uncommon French at frequency #99,918 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.laʁ.zjoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parasitose provoquée par la bilharzie, un petit ver appelé aussi schistosome qui provoque la schistosomiase ^([1]).".
bilharziose has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bilharziose, spelled B-I-L-H-A-R-Z-I-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Parasitose provoquée par la bilharzie, un petit ver appelé aussi schistosome qui provoque la schistosomiase ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bilharziose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Faim participait pleinement à la rédemption des individus. C’était d’ailleurs le seul gain qu’on pouvait en espérer. En dehors de cela, elle était comme un poison qui détruit les corps, en les transformant en proies idéales pour la malaria et la bilharziose.
… français et sénégalais du centre de de recherches biomédicale de Saint-Louis (au nord de Dakar) testent sur le terrain la réintroduction de crevettes en vue de restaurer une lutte biologique contre la bilharziose.
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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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