cancérologue
\kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“cancérologue” is uncommon French (frequency #76,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,398
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin spécialiste des maladies cancéreuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancerologue · cancérologue · French
cancérologue · rank #76,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,398
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calmait
Nearest frequency peer: calmait (-2 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 « cancérologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calcinée
calcinée
23,607 corpus weight
- calmait
calmait
23,605 corpus weight
- cancérologue
cancérologue
23,603 corpus weight
- canna
canna
23,601 corpus weight
- capitalism
capitalism
23,600 corpus weight
- career
career
23,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cancérologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancérologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cancérologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cancérologue is uncommon French at frequency #76,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.se.ʁɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin spécialiste des maladies cancéreuses.".
cancérologue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 cancérologue, spelled C-A-N-C-É-R-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Médecin spécialiste des maladies cancéreuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cancérologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’urologue, cancérologue spécialiste d’organe, est le premier intervenant dans plus de 95 % de la prise en charge des cancers urologiques ; 97 % de la cancérologie urologique sont pratiqués en dehors des centres anticancéreux.
Cette approche, l’électrochimiothérapie, a été saluée par les applaudissements nourris de la communauté des cancérologues venus des quatre coins de la planète.
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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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