cyphose
French, noun/si.foz/
cyphose is spelled C-Y-P-H-O-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cyphose is a French feminine noun meaning “kyphosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courbure de la colonne vertébrale à convexité arrière”.
What does cyphose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekyphosis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courbure de la colonne vertébrale à convexité arrière. 2. Hypercyphose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cyphose
- cyphoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cyphose?
- /si.foz/
- \si.foz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cyphose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cyphose in French?
cyphose appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).