hypoxie
\i.pok.si\
The verdict
“hypoxie” is uncommon French (frequency #65,218 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,218
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phénomène qui se produit en milieu aquatique quand la concentration du dioxygène dissous est réduite à un point critique pour les organismes vivants dans ce milieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypoxie · hypoxie · French
hypoxie · rank #65,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,218
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hyperinflation
Nearest frequency peer: hyperinflation (-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 « hypoxie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hubs
hubs
34,785 corpus weight
- hyperinflat…
hyperinflation
34,784 corpus weight
- hypoxie
hypoxie
34,783 corpus weight
- héroïquement
héroïquement
34,782 corpus weight
- idéalisation
idéalisation
34,781 corpus weight
- Ikéa
Ikéa
34,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hypoxie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypoxie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pok.si\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hypoxie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hypoxie is uncommon French at frequency #65,218 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.pok.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hypoxie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is hypoxie, spelled H-Y-P-O-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Phénomène qui se produit en milieu aquatique quand la concentration du dioxygène dissous est réduite à un point critique pour les organismes vivants dans ce milieu.
- 2Oxygénation insuffisante des tissus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypoxie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hypoxie n’a pas lésé ses fonctions cérébrales.
C'est dans cette veine que l'on trouve par exemple les chambres à hypoxie. Totalement hermétiques elles permettent aux sportifs de haut niveau de recréer les conditions de manque d'oxygène propre à une altitude de 3000 mètres.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).