leishmaniose
\lɛʃ.ma.njoz\
The verdict
“leishmaniose” is uncommon French (frequency #90,878 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,878
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affection cutanée ou viscérale due aux leishmanias (protozoaires parasites des cellules).
Corpus desk
Index FR-leishmaniose · leishmaniose · French
leishmaniose · rank #90,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,878
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH legis
Nearest frequency peer: legis (-2 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 « leishmaniose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lauriane
Lauriane
9,127 corpus weight
- Leers
Leers
9,126 corpus weight
- legis
legis
9,125 corpus weight
- leishmaniose
leishmaniose
9,123 corpus weight
- lewy
lewy
9,121 corpus weight
- libérable
libérable
9,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leishmaniose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leishmaniose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛʃ.ma.njoz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leishmaniose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leishmaniose is uncommon French at frequency #90,878 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛʃ.ma.njoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affection cutanée ou viscérale due aux leishmanias (protozoaires parasites des cellules).".
Zero misspellings are on record for leishmaniose in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is leishmaniose, spelled L-E-I-S-H-M-A-N-I-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Affection cutanée ou viscérale due aux leishmanias (protozoaires parasites des cellules).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leishmaniose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La diversité des symptômes et de l’évolution des deux maladies a conduit les bactériologistes à attribuer la leishmaniose américaine, soit à une espèce spéciale : Leishmania braziliensis (Vianna), soit à une variété du parasite du clou d’Orient L. tropica , var. americana (Laveran et Nattan-Larrier). La pratique de la désinfection est la même dans les deu…
Parce qu’elles touchent les populations les plus pauvres du monde, la maladie du sommeil ou la leishmaniose viscérale ont été oubliées par la recherche pharmaceutique.
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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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