fructification
\fʁyk.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“fructification” is uncommon French (frequency #69,104 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,104
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formation, production des fruits dans un végétal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fructification · fructification · French
fructification · rank #69,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,104
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fru
Nearest frequency peer: fru (-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 « fructification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- freinant
freinant
30,900 corpus weight
- fresne
fresne
30,899 corpus weight
- fru
fru
30,898 corpus weight
- fructificat…
fructification
30,897 corpus weight
- gagnèrent
gagnèrent
30,894 corpus weight
- galvaniser
galvaniser
30,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fructification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fructification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁyk.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #69,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fructification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fructification is uncommon French at frequency #69,104 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁyk.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fructification has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fructification, spelled F-R-U-C-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Formation, production des fruits dans un végétal.
- 2Disposition des parties dont la réunion forme le fruit.
- 3Fait de donner des fruits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fructification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous le couvert épais de la futaie, à luminosité réduite, la fructification devient difficile ; aussi, […] la multiplication végétative par stolons, rhizomes ou bulbes est-elle souvent la règle pour beaucoup d’espèces.
La fructification du capital.
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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