holotype
\ɔ.lɔ.tip\
The verdict
“holotype” is uncommon French (frequency #71,581 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,581
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécimen de référence (conservé) qui a servi à la description d’une nouvelle espèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holotype · holotype · French
holotype · rank #71,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,581
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Houria
Nearest frequency peer: Houria (+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 « holotype »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- harpiste
harpiste
28,426 corpus weight
- Hilbert
Hilbert
28,423 corpus weight
- holotype
holotype
28,420 corpus weight
- Houria
Houria
28,419 corpus weight
- Hurst
Hurst
28,416 corpus weight
- huss
huss
28,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « holotype » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holotype |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.lɔ.tip\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « holotype » en français
Rare enough to double-check
holotype is uncommon French at frequency #71,581 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.lɔ.tip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécimen de référence (conservé) qui a servi à la description d’une nouvelle espèce.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for holotype, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is holotype, spelled H-O-L-O-T-Y-P-E.
Definition
- 1Spécimen de référence (conservé) qui a servi à la description d’une nouvelle espèce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holotype appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même, Wernli suggère une paroi calcaire hyaline radiée partiellement recristallisée, peut-être perforée sur la base des illustrations de l’holotype.
C’est ainsi que, par exemple, les pièces paléoanthropologiques extrêmement importantes, holotypes de ce qu’il [Camille Arambourg] a appelé l’Atlanthropus mauritanicus, Homo erectus maghrébin de 700 000 ans, extraites de ses fouilles à Ternifine (Tighennif) en Algérie en 1953-1954, font partie des collections du Muséum de Paris.
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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