épidémiologiste

\e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\

/\e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\/ noun

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The verdict

“épidémiologiste” is uncommon French (frequency #70,336 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,336
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne spécialiste en épidémiologie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-epidemiologiste · épidémiologiste · French

épidémiologiste · rank #70,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,336
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH énergisante

Nearest frequency peer: énergisante (-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 « épidémiologiste »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épidémiologiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for épidémiologiste
PropertyValue
Headwordépidémiologiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\
Letters15
Frequency rank#70,336
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « épidémiologiste » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.épidémiologistetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « énergisante » (#70,335), « épie » (#70,337), « émaillent » (#70,334). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « épidémiologiste » est au #70,336. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

épidémiologiste is uncommon French at frequency #70,336 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne spécialiste en épidémiologie.".

épidémiologiste has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is épidémiologiste, spelled É-P-I-D-É-M-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne spécialiste en épidémiologie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how épidémiologiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Initialement, les épidémiologistes estimaient que jusqu’à 30 % de la population mondiale (qui compte 6,7 milliards de personnes) seraient atteints, mais, selon Christophe Fraser, épidémiologiste à l’Imperial College de Londres, il est plus probable que cela a été plutôt 10 à 20 %, soit quelques centaines de millions.
  2. Des épidémiologistes, qui ont comparé pendant sept ans les habitudes alimentaires et l’état de santé de près de 10 000 adultes américains, on montré qu’une alimentation trop riche en phosphates augmentait le risque de mourir prématurément (« The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition », 8/15). — (« Kebab : Fat et phosphates », Malbouffe, le dico, Les Doss…

This word in other languages

epidemiologist(English)epidemiólogo(Español)Epidemiologe(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "épidémiologiste"?
"épidémiologiste" is spelled É-P-I-D-É-M-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\.
What does "épidémiologiste" mean?
As a noun, "épidémiologiste" means: Personne spécialiste en épidémiologie.
How do you pronounce "épidémiologiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "épidémiologiste" is \e.pi.de.mjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "épidémiologiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list