cancer du sein
\kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy sɛ̃\
The verdict
“cancer du sein” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cancer où la tumeur se développe dans un sein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancer-du-sein · cancer du sein · French
cancer du sein · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 sein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cancer du sein » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cancer du sein is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.sɛʁ dy sɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cancer du sein in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 cancer du sein, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-U- -S-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1Cancer où la tumeur se développe dans un sein.
- 2Cancer dont l’origine sont les tissus mammaires soit par extension un carcinome canalaire ou un carcinome lobulaire.
- 3Tout cancer touchant le sein par extension métastatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cancer du sein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut la mort de Miss Blaisie, la secrétaire de rédaction. Miss Blaisie, trente ans de calibrages exacts et de légendes au carré, morte d’un cancer du sein.
À l’aube de l’ouverture d’Octobre rose, Marie-Christine Dalloz témoigne de son combat contre le cancer du sein, pour sensibiliser les femmes au dépistage et soutenir celles qui se battent actuellement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.