embryologie
\ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“embryologie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,706 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,706
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science de l’embryon et du fœtus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embryologie · embryologie · French
embryologie · rank #66,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,706
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embellissemen…
Nearest frequency peer: embellissements (-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 « embryologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Elysium
Elysium
33,297 corpus weight
- embellissem…
embellissements
33,296 corpus weight
- embryologie
embryologie
33,295 corpus weight
- emmerdeuse
emmerdeuse
33,294 corpus weight
- empruntes
empruntes
33,293 corpus weight
- encarté
encarté
33,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embryologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embryologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embryologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embryologie is uncommon French at frequency #66,706 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Science de l’embryon et du fœtus.".
embryologie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is embryologie, spelled E-M-B-R-Y-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science de l’embryon et du fœtus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embryologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour tout lecteur contemporain qui aborde l’embryologie expérimentale, se pose la question de l’encadrement législatif de l’expérimentation animale sur les animaux adultes et sur leurs formes embryonnaires ou larvaires.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).