cortisol
\kɔʁ.ti.zɔl\
The verdict
“cortisol” is uncommon French (frequency #57,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,850
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone du stress produite dans les glandes surrénales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cortisol · cortisol · French
cortisol · rank #57,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corporative
Nearest frequency peer: corporative (-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 « cortisol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- convexes
convexes
42,155 corpus weight
- corporative
corporative
42,152 corpus weight
- cortisol
cortisol
42,151 corpus weight
- cosinus
cosinus
42,150 corpus weight
- cosmologique
cosmologique
42,149 corpus weight
- cotise
cotise
42,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cortisol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cortisol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ti.zɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cortisol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cortisol is uncommon French at frequency #57,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.ti.zɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone du stress produite dans les glandes surrénales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cortisol in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cortisol, spelled C-O-R-T-I-S-O-L.
Definition
- 1Hormone du stress produite dans les glandes surrénales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cortisol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une insuffisance surrénalienne primaire partielle donne un tableau intermédiaire: l’élimination urinaire de cortisol est à la limite inférieure de l’intervalle normal ; de plus, le cortisol plasmatique répond à un test de stimulation court à l’ACTH.
Le cortisol on l’appelle souvent l’hormone du stress, et c’est pas faux. Je suis sûr que les moines, par exemple, sécrètent très peu de cortisol.
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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