cancer du poumon
\kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy pu.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“cancer du poumon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de cancer où la tumeur se développe dans le poumon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancer-du-poumon · cancer du poumon · French
cancer du poumon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancer du poumon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy pu.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cancer du poumon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cancer du poumon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy pu.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme de cancer où la tumeur se développe dans le poumon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cancer du poumon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cancer du poumon, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-U- -P-O-U-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Forme de cancer où la tumeur se développe dans le poumon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cancer du poumon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… Or le principal défaut du MOX c’est qu’il est extrêmement toxique, bien plus que les autres combustibles nucléaires. Même de très faibles doses sont dangereuses : Une seule particule inhalée peut provoquer un cancer du poumon. Fukushima n’est donc effectivement pas comparable à Tchernobyl. Mais malheureusement pas à son avantage…
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