ergothérapeute
\ɛʁ.ɡɔ.te.ʁa.pøt\
The verdict
“ergothérapeute” is uncommon French (frequency #81,131 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,131
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne utilisant le travail manuel pour soigner une personne malade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ergotherapeute · ergothérapeute · French
ergothérapeute · rank #81,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,131
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH erra
Nearest frequency peer: erra (+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 « ergothérapeute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enveloppait
enveloppait
18,873 corpus weight
- enverras
enverras
18,872 corpus weight
- ergothérape…
ergothérapeute
18,870 corpus weight
- erra
erra
18,869 corpus weight
- escarpements
escarpements
18,868 corpus weight
- escortent
escortent
18,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ergothérapeute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ergothérapeute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.te.ʁa.pøt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #81,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ergothérapeute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ergothérapeute is uncommon French at frequency #81,131 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.te.ʁa.pøt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne utilisant le travail manuel pour soigner une personne malade.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ergothérapeute, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ergothérapeute, spelled E-R-G-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-E-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne utilisant le travail manuel pour soigner une personne malade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ergothérapeute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ergothérapeute, peu importe son lieu de travail, les personnes qu’il aide ou le rôle qu’il remplit, a des obligations légales et déontologiques.
Des étudiants en pharmacie, en pratique sage-femme ou en inhalothérapie, ou des étudiants qui deviendront infirmiers ou infirmières auxiliaires et des résidents en médecine pourront contribuer à la campagne. L’arrêté ministériel permettra aussi aux acupuncteurs, audiologistes, chiropraticiens, audioprothésistes, denturologistes, ergothérapeutes, hygiénist…
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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