foramen
\fɔ.ʁa.mɛn\
The verdict
“foramen” is uncommon French (frequency #91,706 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,706
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trou dans une structure anatomique (par exemple un os) ou dans un tissu du corps, permettant le passage de muscles, de nerfs, de vaisseaux sanguins, de fluides, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foramen · foramen · French
foramen · rank #91,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fortuits
Nearest frequency peer: fortuits (+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 « foramen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foisonne
foisonne
8,299 corpus weight
- foliaires
foliaires
8,298 corpus weight
- fondo
fondo
8,297 corpus weight
- foramen
foramen
8,295 corpus weight
- fortuits
fortuits
8,294 corpus weight
- frapperont
frapperont
8,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foramen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foramen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁa.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foramen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foramen is uncommon French at frequency #91,706 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.ʁa.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trou dans une structure anatomique (par exemple un os) ou dans un tissu du corps, permettant le passage de muscles, de nerfs, de vaisseaux sanguins, de fluides, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foramen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foramen, spelled F-O-R-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Trou dans une structure anatomique (par exemple un os) ou dans un tissu du corps, permettant le passage de muscles, de nerfs, de vaisseaux sanguins, de fluides, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foramen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils distinguaient fort bien dans l’intérieur le septum lucidum, composé de deux lamelles, et la glande pinéale, qui ressemble à un petit pois rouge ; mais il y avait des pédoncules et des ventricules, des arcs, des piliers, des étages, des ganglions et des fibres de toutes sortes, et le foramen de Pacchioni, et le corps de Paccini, bref, un amas inextrica…
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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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