fistule
\fis.tyl\
The verdict
“fistule” is uncommon French (frequency #58,618 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal artificiel qui communique avec une glande ou une cavité naturelle et qui donne passage au liquide physiologique ou pathologique qu’elles sécrètent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fistule · fistule · French
fistule · rank #58,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,618
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiore
Nearest frequency peer: fiore (-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 « fistule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finirons
finirons
41,386 corpus weight
- finissants
finissants
41,385 corpus weight
- fiore
fiore
41,384 corpus weight
- fistule
fistule
41,383 corpus weight
- flingueurs
flingueurs
41,382 corpus weight
- forfaitaires
forfaitaires
41,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fistule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fistule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fis.tyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fistule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fistule is uncommon French at frequency #58,618 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fis.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fistule in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 fistule, spelled F-I-S-T-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Canal artificiel qui communique avec une glande ou une cavité naturelle et qui donne passage au liquide physiologique ou pathologique qu’elles sécrètent.
- 2Orifice naturel anormal d’où s’écoule un liquide organique.
- 3Nom donné chez les anciens à la petite flûte ou à la flûte de Pan dans l'antiquité et au moyen-âge
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fistule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du côté des femmes m’échut une vieille gâteuse affligée d'une fistule compliquée qui faisait communiquer entre elles toutes les pièces basses de son organisme, par où je devais introduire des filières de mèches au sublimé.
Avec sa fistule et cette puanteur, précise Mme Bosse, on comprend que l’avenir lui fasse souci !
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).