Botrytis
\bɔ.tʁi.tis\
The verdict
“Botrytis” is uncommon French (frequency #94,550 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,550
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de champignons ascomycètes de la famille des Sclerotiniaceae, dont l’espèce la plus connue est Botrytis cinerea (forme asexuée), responsable de la pourriture grise, maladie qui attaque les fr...
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Index FR-botrytis · Botrytis · French
Botrytis · rank #94,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,550
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bote
Nearest frequency peer: Bote (-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 « Botrytis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bosman
bosman
5,454 corpus weight
- Bote
Bote
5,452 corpus weight
- Botrytis
Botrytis
5,451 corpus weight
- bottega
bottega
5,450 corpus weight
- Bouchra
Bouchra
5,449 corpus weight
- bouilles
bouilles
5,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Botrytis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Botrytis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.tʁi.tis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Botrytis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Botrytis is uncommon French at frequency #94,550 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɔ.tʁi.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de champignons ascomycètes de la famille des Sclerotiniaceae, dont l’espèce la plus connue est Botrytis cinerea (forme asexuée), responsable de la pourriture grise, maladie qui attaque les fr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Botrytis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Botrytis, spelled B-O-T-R-Y-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Genre de champignons ascomycètes de la famille des Sclerotiniaceae, dont l’espèce la plus connue est Botrytis cinerea (forme asexuée), responsable de la pourriture grise, maladie qui attaque les fruits.
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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