drosophile
\dʁɔ.zɔ.fil\
The verdict
“drosophile” is uncommon French (frequency #94,714 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,714
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit insecte diptère, holométabole, dont l'espèce la plus courante est la mouche du vinaigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drosophile · drosophile · French
drosophile · rank #94,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,714
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH draveurs
Nearest frequency peer: draveurs (-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 « drosophile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dormeuse
dormeuse
5,292 corpus weight
- dosées
dosées
5,290 corpus weight
- DPP
DPP
5,289 corpus weight
- draveurs
draveurs
5,288 corpus weight
- drosophile
drosophile
5,287 corpus weight
- ductile
ductile
5,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drosophile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drosophile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔ.zɔ.fil\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drosophile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drosophile is uncommon French at frequency #94,714 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɔ.zɔ.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit insecte diptère, holométabole, dont l'espèce la plus courante est la mouche du vinaigre.".
drosophile doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is drosophile, spelled D-R-O-S-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit insecte diptère, holométabole, dont l'espèce la plus courante est la mouche du vinaigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drosophile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pensif, il laissa passer presque tout l’après-midi à intégrer la nouvelle en regardant Ben qui s’escrimait à micro-injecter des œufs de drosophile.
Or on a découvert depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt que des gènes de contrôle homologues de ceux de la drosophile, des homéogènes, existent aussi chez la souris.
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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