ganglion
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,555
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ganglion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quelqu’un des divers organes qui ont l’apparence de petits pelotons ou de nœuds et qui remplissent diverses fonctions suivant la partie du corps où ils se trouvent. Pronounced \ɡɑ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganglion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ganglion is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɑ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,555 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ganglion in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ganglion, spelled G-A-N-G-L-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quelqu’un des divers organes qui ont l’apparence de petits pelotons ou de nœuds et qui remplissent diverses fonctions suivant la partie du corps où ils se trouvent.
- 2Petite tumeur globuleuse, dure, indolente, développée sur le trajet des tendons.
- 3Sorte d’excroissance, de kyste.
- 4Centre décisionnel, endroit où transite des informations, cela par analogie avec les ganglions nerveux.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #61,555 in French
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