éclampsie
\e.klɑ̃.psi\
The verdict
“éclampsie” is uncommon French (frequency #94,411 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,411
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accident convulsif qui accompagne certains états pathologiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclampsie · éclampsie · French
éclampsie · rank #94,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,411
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échauffements
Nearest frequency peer: échauffements (-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 « éclampsie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zélandaises
zélandaises
5,593 corpus weight
- échauffemen…
échauffements
5,591 corpus weight
- éclampsie
éclampsie
5,590 corpus weight
- éclipsent
éclipsent
5,589 corpus weight
- éclopés
éclopés
5,588 corpus weight
- écrier
écrier
5,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éclampsie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclampsie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.klɑ̃.psi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éclampsie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éclampsie is uncommon French at frequency #94,411 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.klɑ̃.psi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accident convulsif qui accompagne certains états pathologiques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for éclampsie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éclampsie, spelled É-C-L-A-M-P-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Accident convulsif qui accompagne certains états pathologiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éclampsie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Éclampsie des femmes en couches.
Des petites filles vocalisent, la nuque renversée ; je reconnais des têtes de noyées, des physionomies de mortes que se sont disputées l’éclampsie et l’inanition.
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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