duodénum
\dɥɔ.de.nɔm\
The verdict
“duodénum” is uncommon French (frequency #75,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie qui relie l’estomac à l’intestin grêle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duodenum · duodénum · French
duodénum · rank #75,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,618
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dutertre
Nearest frequency peer: Dutertre (+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 « duodénum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dragonne
dragonne
24,387 corpus weight
- Drees
Drees
24,386 corpus weight
- Drieu
Drieu
24,385 corpus weight
- duodénum
duodénum
24,383 corpus weight
- Dutertre
Dutertre
24,382 corpus weight
- débours
débours
24,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duodénum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duodénum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɥɔ.de.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duodénum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duodénum is uncommon French at frequency #75,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɥɔ.de.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie qui relie l’estomac à l’intestin grêle.".
duodénum has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is duodénum, spelled D-U-O-D-É-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1Partie qui relie l’estomac à l’intestin grêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duodénum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois gresles, appelés duodenum, jejunum et ileon […] le premier a esté ainsi nommé, à cause qu’il est quasi comme un changement de ventricule en intestin, selon la longitude de douze doigts.
En arrière du foie, on trouve le ligament hépato-gastrique, qui fixe l'estomac dans la scissure postérieure du foie; ce frein se prolonge à droite et en arrière, attache le duodénum à la face inférieure du rein droit, puis se dirige de droite à gauche, en se continuant avec le péritoine pariétal de la région sous-lombaire et le mésentère proprement dit.
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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