ergothérapie
\ɛʁ.ɡo.te.ʁa.pi\
The verdict
“ergothérapie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,770 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,770
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traitement utilisant le travail manuel pour guérir une personne malade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ergotherapie · ergothérapie · French
ergothérapie · rank #74,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,770
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Escurial
Nearest frequency peer: Escurial (+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 « ergothérapie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entamait
entamait
25,237 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneure
25,235 corpus weight
- entreprirent
entreprirent
25,234 corpus weight
- ergothérapie
ergothérapie
25,231 corpus weight
- Escurial
Escurial
25,230 corpus weight
- estaque
estaque
25,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ergothérapie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ergothérapie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ɡo.te.ʁa.pi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ergothérapie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ergothérapie is uncommon French at frequency #74,770 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.ɡo.te.ʁa.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traitement utilisant le travail manuel pour guérir une personne malade.".
ergothérapie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ergothérapie, spelled E-R-G-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Traitement utilisant le travail manuel pour guérir une personne malade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ergothérapie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'ergothérapie a un rôle prépondérant tout au long du processus de rééducation, de réadaptation et de réinsertion des personnes en situation de handicap physique ou psychique.
Dans les années 1970 où se situent les prises en charge d’ergothérapie que nous allons raconter, la profession était souvent qualifiée de « bricolothérapie ».
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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