homuncule
\ɔ.mɔ̃.kyl\
The verdict
“homuncule” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homuncule · homuncule · French
homuncule · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homuncule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.mɔ̃.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
homuncule is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.mɔ̃.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for homuncule, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is homuncule, spelled H-O-M-U-N-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit homme.
- 2Ancienne théorie qui cherchait à voir chaque organe indépendant au niveau psychologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homuncule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il traversait ce soir là le boulevard quand un gracieux petit monsieur l’aborda : « Monsieur Pensiot ? ». Et l’aimable homuncule le salua jusqu’à terre, découvrant un crâne rose.
Moi, brave Arya, très préoccupé de progrès, de justice, de charité, formé par la discipline classique et tout imprégné d’idées générales, ces homuncules aux cerveaux étroits m’apparaissent, malgré leur immobile culture superficielle, comme tout proches encore de l’humanité primitive, comme de jolies bêtes qui ne sont pas mes parentes. Je me figure qu’ils…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.