Botrytis
\bɔ.tʁi.tis\
The verdict
“Botrytis” is uncommon French (frequency #94,550 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,550
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “Botrytis” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Botrytis is uncommon French at frequency #94,550 among 227,490 “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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Using “Botrytis”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-T-R-Y-T-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.