hystérectomie
\is.te.ʁɛk.tɔ.mi\
The verdict
“hystérectomie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,518 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,518
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ablation chirurgicale de l’utérus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hysterectomie · hystérectomie · French
hystérectomie · rank #64,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,518
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypnotiseur
Nearest frequency peer: hypnotiseur (-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 « hystérectomie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hurla
hurla
35,486 corpus weight
- hydrostatiq…
hydrostatique
35,485 corpus weight
- hypnotiseur
hypnotiseur
35,484 corpus weight
- hystérectom…
hystérectomie
35,483 corpus weight
- hérauts
hérauts
35,482 corpus weight
- hétérosexue…
hétérosexuelles
35,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hystérectomie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hystérectomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \is.te.ʁɛk.tɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #64,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hystérectomie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hystérectomie is uncommon French at frequency #64,518 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \is.te.ʁɛk.tɔ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ablation chirurgicale de l’utérus.".
hystérectomie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 hystérectomie, spelled H-Y-S-T-É-R-E-C-T-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ablation chirurgicale de l’utérus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hystérectomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hystérectomie reste encore l’intervention dominante due principalement au fait que les traitements médicaux apparaissent inefficaces, chers et présentant des effets secondaires.
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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