étiologie
\e.tjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“étiologie” is uncommon French (frequency #56,381 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,381
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la médecine qui traite des diverses causes des faits biologiques et spécialement des maladies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etiologie · étiologie · French
étiologie · rank #56,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,381
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éteigne
Nearest frequency peer: éteigne (-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 « étiologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épithélium
épithélium
43,623 corpus weight
- équivaudrait
équivaudrait
43,622 corpus weight
- éteigne
éteigne
43,621 corpus weight
- étiologie
étiologie
43,620 corpus weight
- étudiais
étudiais
43,619 corpus weight
- éveillent
éveillent
43,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étiologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étiologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étiologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étiologie is uncommon French at frequency #56,381 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for étiologie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is étiologie, spelled É-T-I-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la médecine qui traite des diverses causes des faits biologiques et spécialement des maladies.
- 2Étude de la genèse des organes et des fonctions d’un corps vivant.
- 3Étude de l’ensemble des causes d’un phénomène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étiologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moins elle se livrera à des spéculations sur l’étiologie de la maladie devant un étranger, moins elle donnera prise à la suspicion que les affirmations de N’Da auraient pu provoquer.
Hahnemann rattachait la luèse aux effets de la syphilis. Depuis, l’étiologie de la luèse s'est considérablement élargie. Parmi les facteurs déclenchants, on trouve souvent des intoxications diverses à l'alcool, aux drogues et aux médicaments.
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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