chlamydia
\kla.mi.dja\
The verdict
“chlamydia” is uncommon French (frequency #68,912 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,912
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bactérie qui provoque chez l’humain des maladies comme le trachome, la psittacose (ou ornithose), la pararickettsiose (ou miyagawanellose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chlamydia · chlamydia · French
chlamydia · rank #68,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chochotte
Nearest frequency peer: chochotte (+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 « chlamydia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chicaner
chicaner
31,093 corpus weight
- chienlit
chienlit
31,092 corpus weight
- chlamydia
chlamydia
31,089 corpus weight
- chochotte
chochotte
31,088 corpus weight
- choquette
choquette
31,087 corpus weight
- christianis…
christianisation
31,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chlamydia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chlamydia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.mi.dja\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chlamydia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chlamydia is uncommon French at frequency #68,912 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.mi.dja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bactérie qui provoque chez l’humain des maladies comme le trachome, la psittacose (ou ornithose), la pararickettsiose (ou miyagawanellose).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chlamydia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chlamydia, spelled C-H-L-A-M-Y-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Bactérie qui provoque chez l’humain des maladies comme le trachome, la psittacose (ou ornithose), la pararickettsiose (ou miyagawanellose).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chlamydia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était agonisant, souffrait d’une infection à chlamydia qui l’avait rendu aveugle, mais il était encore solide.
Il croyait tenir là un discours intelligent. (Ça n’en est pas un, et si, il y a du mal à cela, bande de têtes de mules infestée de chlamydiae.) — (Daniel Nayeri, Coco et Cloclo, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres histoires fantastiques et déglinguées, traduit de l’anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec, Hélium, 2008, page 345)
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); 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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