corpuscule
\kɔʁ.pys.kyl\
The verdict
“corpuscule” is uncommon French (frequency #95,749 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,749
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très petit corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corpuscule · corpuscule · French
corpuscule · rank #95,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,749
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coronel
Nearest frequency peer: coronel (-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 « corpuscule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Corbas
Corbas
4,255 corpus weight
- cores
cores
4,254 corpus weight
- coronel
coronel
4,253 corpus weight
- corpuscule
corpuscule
4,252 corpus weight
- corroborées
corroborées
4,251 corpus weight
- cosmologiqu…
cosmologiques
4,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corpuscule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corpuscule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.pys.kyl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corpuscule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corpuscule is uncommon French at frequency #95,749 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.pys.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for corpuscule, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is corpuscule, spelled C-O-R-P-U-S-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Très petit corps.
- 2Élément anatomique fonctionnel de petite taille
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corpuscule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je cherchai donc à me représenter la dualité onde-corpuscule par une image spatiale où le corpuscule serait le centre d’un phénomène ondulatoire étendu.
Le CEA explique aussi que contrairement à la physique classique, la mécanique quantique confond les corpuscules (atome, particule) et les ondes (lumière, électricité) : un électron, une molécule ou un atome sont à la fois onde et corpuscule.
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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