listeria
\lis.te.ʁja\
The verdict
“listeria” is uncommon French (frequency #91,889 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,889
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un bacille de petite taille, mobile à 20 °C (grâce à des flagelles), gram positif, catalase positif, non sporulé, anaérobie facultatif, ubiquistes et très résistante, pouvant être agent d'une des l...
Corpus desk
Index FR-listeria · listeria · French
listeria · rank #91,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lived
Nearest frequency peer: lived (+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 « listeria »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libériens
libériens
8,117 corpus weight
- licencieux
licencieux
8,116 corpus weight
- lieus
lieus
8,115 corpus weight
- listeria
listeria
8,112 corpus weight
- lived
lived
8,111 corpus weight
- Lofoten
Lofoten
8,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « listeria » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | listeria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lis.te.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « listeria » en français
Rare enough to double-check
listeria is uncommon French at frequency #91,889 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lis.te.ʁja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un bacille de petite taille, mobile à 20 °C (grâce à des flagelles), gram positif, catalase positif, non sporulé, anaérobie facultatif, ubiquistes et très résistante, pouvant être agent d'une des l...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for listeria in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is listeria, spelled L-I-S-T-E-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Un bacille de petite taille, mobile à 20 °C (grâce à des flagelles), gram positif, catalase positif, non sporulé, anaérobie facultatif, ubiquistes et très résistante, pouvant être agent d'une des listérioses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how listeria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais des melons, des pousses de soja ou du céleri ont déjà été responsables d’infections à la listeria.
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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