intubation
\ɛ̃.ty.ba.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“intubation” is uncommon French (frequency #71,618 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’introduire un tube dans la trachée d’un patient pour lui permettre de respirer. → voir tubage
Corpus desk
Index FR-intubation · intubation · French
intubation · rank #71,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,618
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intervenaient
Nearest frequency peer: intervenaient (-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 « intubation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- installeront
installeront
28,387 corpus weight
- intellectual
intellectual
28,386 corpus weight
- intervenaie…
intervenaient
28,384 corpus weight
- intubation
intubation
28,383 corpus weight
- investissons
investissons
28,382 corpus weight
- irréalisabl…
irréalisables
28,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intubation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intubation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ty.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intubation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intubation is uncommon French at frequency #71,618 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.ty.ba.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’introduire un tube dans la trachée d’un patient pour lui permettre de respirer. → voir tubage".
Zero misspellings are on record for intubation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 intubation, spelled I-N-T-U-B-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’introduire un tube dans la trachée d’un patient pour lui permettre de respirer. → voir tubage
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intubation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En France, les dispositifs supraglottiques peuvent être utilisés comme une alternative à l’intubation et surtout à la ventilation au masque facial parce qu’ils libèrent les mains de l’opérateur.
Le guide sert de tuteur pour le passage d’une sonde d’intubation d’un diamètre 6 7 mm.
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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