hémostase
\e.mɔ.staz\
The verdict
“hémostase” is uncommon French (frequency #91,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,795
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stagnation du sang causée par la pléthore, arrêt d’une hémorragie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hemostase · hémostase · French
hémostase · rank #91,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,795
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypothyroïdie
Nearest frequency peer: hypothyroïdie (-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 « hémostase »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- huitaine
huitaine
8,211 corpus weight
- humidifier
humidifier
8,210 corpus weight
- hyperboliqu…
hyperboliques
8,208 corpus weight
- hypothyroïd…
hypothyroïdie
8,207 corpus weight
- hémostase
hémostase
8,206 corpus weight
- identifions
identifions
8,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hémostase » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hémostase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mɔ.staz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hémostase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hémostase is uncommon French at frequency #91,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.mɔ.staz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hémostase, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hémostase, spelled H-É-M-O-S-T-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Stagnation du sang causée par la pléthore, arrêt d’une hémorragie.
- 2Opération qui a pour but d’arrêter l’écoulement du sang.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hémostase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hémostase est le processus physiologique qui permet au sang de former rapidement un caillot pour obturer une brèche vasculaire, de favoriser la cicatrisation de cette brèche et de faire disparaître ce caillot une fois la cicatrisation terminée.
This word in other languages
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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