carcinome
\kaʁ.si.nɔm\
The verdict
“carcinome” is uncommon French (frequency #51,946 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,946
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de cancer qui se développe à partir de l’épithélium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carcinome · carcinome · French
carcinome · rank #51,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,946
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carat
Nearest frequency peer: carat (-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 « carcinome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canulars
canulars
48,058 corpus weight
- captivante
captivante
48,057 corpus weight
- carat
carat
48,056 corpus weight
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
- Caribbean
Caribbean
48,054 corpus weight
- carrossier
carrossier
48,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « carcinome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carcinome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.si.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « carcinome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
carcinome is uncommon French at frequency #51,946 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁ.si.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de cancer qui se développe à partir de l’épithélium.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carcinome in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is carcinome, spelled C-A-R-C-I-N-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de cancer qui se développe à partir de l’épithélium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carcinome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres types de tumeurs oculaires (mélanome, carcinome ou lymphome) peuvent se développer dans la conjonctive, les paupières ou l’orbite.
Finalement, l’exposition parvient à être captivante, alors qu’on nous parle d’IRM, de carcinome ou de lymphocytes T.
Synonyms
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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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