échinococcose alvéolaire
The verdict
“échinococcose alvéolaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Une zoonose très grave, autrefois souvent confondue avec la cirrhose ou le cancer du foie, provoquée par un ver échinocoque, Echinococcus multilocularis, un très petit ténia dont l’adulte est paras...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échinococcose alvéolaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ki.nɔ.kɔ.ko.z‿al.ve.ɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échinococcose alvéolaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échinococcose alvéolaire is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ki.nɔ.kɔ.ko.z‿al.ve.ɔ.lɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Une zoonose très grave, autrefois souvent confondue avec la cirrhose ou le cancer du foie, provoquée par un ver échinocoque, Echinococcus multilocularis, un très petit ténia dont l’adulte est paras...".
No misspelling variants are generated for échinococcose alvéolaire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échinococcose alvéolaire, spelled É-C-H-I-N-O-C-O-C-C-O-S-E- -A-L-V-É-O-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une zoonose très grave, autrefois souvent confondue avec la cirrhose ou le cancer du foie, provoquée par un ver échinocoque, Echinococcus multilocularis, un très petit ténia dont l’adulte est parasite généralement de canidés (le renard surtout), et dont la larve (larve échinocoque) est parasite de rongeurs et très rarement de l’homme.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-I-N-O-C-O-C-C-O-S-E- -A-L-V-É-O-L-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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