leucémies

\lø.se.mi\

/\lø.se.mi\/ noun

The verdict

“leucémies” is uncommon French (frequency #66,069 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,069
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de leucémie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-leucemies · leucémies · French

leucémies · rank #66,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,069
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH libéralités

Nearest frequency peer: libéralités (+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 « leucémies »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leucémies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for leucémies
PropertyValue
Headwordleucémies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lø.se.mi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,069
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « leucémies » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.leucémiestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « libéralités » (#66,070), « lesson » (#66,067), « lifetime » (#66,071). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « leucémies » est au #66,069. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

leucémies is uncommon French at frequency #66,069 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lø.se.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de leucémie.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leucémies, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is leucémies, spelled L-E-U-C-É-M-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de leucémie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how leucémies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À travers l’exemple des leucémies, je voudrais proposer quelques réponses à ces questions, sans prétendre qu’elles aient nécessairement une valeur générale pour tous les cancers.
  2. Certaines surincidences sont bien connues, comme celles du lymphome de Burkitt en Afrique subtropicale, du cancer de la thyroïde dans les pays exposés aux radiations par l’accident de Tchernobyl, des leucémies aiguës myéloïdes chez les Maoris, du carcinome du nasopharynx en Chine.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leucémies"?
"leucémies" is spelled L-E-U-C-É-M-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \lø.se.mi\.
What does "leucémies" mean?
As a noun, "leucémies" means: Pluriel de leucémie.
How do you pronounce "leucémies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "leucémies" is \lø.se.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leucémies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list