folliculaire
\fɔ.li.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“folliculaire” is uncommon French (frequency #97,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,971
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux follicules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folliculaire · folliculaire · French
folliculaire · rank #97,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,971
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flânant
Nearest frequency peer: flânant (-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 « folliculaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- floc
floc
2,034 corpus weight
- floria
floria
2,033 corpus weight
- flânant
flânant
2,031 corpus weight
- folliculaire
folliculaire
2,030 corpus weight
- fouettant
fouettant
2,028 corpus weight
- fougasse
fougasse
2,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « folliculaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folliculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.li.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folliculaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folliculaire is uncommon French at frequency #97,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.li.ky.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux follicules.".
Zero misspellings are on record for folliculaire in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is folliculaire, spelled F-O-L-L-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux follicules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how folliculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque ovocyte primaire s'entoure d'une couche unique de cellules épithéliales aplaties, les cellules folliculaires, qui dérivent des cellules des cordons sexuels.
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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