FSH
The verdict
“FSH” is uncommon French (frequency #91,715 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,715
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone folliculostimulante, hormone peptidique (glycoprotéine) produite par l'antéhypophyse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fsh · FSH · French
FSH · rank #91,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,715
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH froissement
Nearest frequency peer: froissement (-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 « FSH »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frapperont
frapperont
8,290 corpus weight
- fratries
fratries
8,289 corpus weight
- froissement
froissement
8,287 corpus weight
- FSH
FSH
8,286 corpus weight
- fundamental
fundamental
8,284 corpus weight
- fuyante
fuyante
8,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FSH » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FSH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FSH » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FSH is uncommon French at frequency #91,715 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone folliculostimulante, hormone peptidique (glycoprotéine) produite par l'antéhypophyse.".
FSH doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is FSH, spelled F-S-H.
Definition
- 1Hormone folliculostimulante, hormone peptidique (glycoprotéine) produite par l'antéhypophyse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FSH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La stimulation de l’ovulation par injection d’hormone (la FSH) en cas d’infertilité féminine due à un trouble de l’ovulation.
La sécrétion de la GnRH et donc de la LH, et à un moindre degré, de la FSH, est pulsatile.
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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