cancérogène
\kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“cancérogène” is uncommon French (frequency #50,702 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,702
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractérise une substance qui peut favoriser l’apparition d’un cancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancerogene · cancérogène · French
cancérogène · rank #50,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,702
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cappadoce
Nearest frequency peer: Cappadoce (+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 « cancérogène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calomnieuse
calomnieuse
49,302 corpus weight
- Campanie
Campanie
49,301 corpus weight
- cancérogène
cancérogène
49,299 corpus weight
- Cappadoce
Cappadoce
49,298 corpus weight
- captiver
captiver
49,297 corpus weight
- cardan
cardan
49,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cancérogène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancérogène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cancérogène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cancérogène is uncommon French at frequency #50,702 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.ʒɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractérise une substance qui peut favoriser l’apparition d’un cancer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cancérogène in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cancérogène, spelled C-A-N-C-É-R-O-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Caractérise une substance qui peut favoriser l’apparition d’un cancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cancérogène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l’Académie de médecine, cancérigène est utilisé au sujet d’une substance favorisant le développement d’un cancer. Quant à cancérogène, ce qui est plus conforme à son étymologie, il désigne une substance favorisant l’apparition d’un cancer.
« Les scientifiques parlent d’une substance cancérogène quand elle est susceptible d’induire un cancer mais dans certaines conditions et à partir d’un certain seuil d’exposition. Pour le grand public, cancérogène, cela veut dire qui donne le cancer ».
Synonyms
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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