lobotomie
\lɔ.bɔ.tɔ.mi\
The verdict
“lobotomie” is uncommon French (frequency #75,853 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,853
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intervention chirurgicale sur le cerveau consistant en une section de la substance blanche du lobe frontal afin d'isoler le cortex préfrontal du reste du cerveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lobotomie · lobotomie · French
lobotomie · rank #75,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,853
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH livrèrent
Nearest frequency peer: livrèrent (-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 « lobotomie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lithographe
lithographe
24,152 corpus weight
- livet
livet
24,151 corpus weight
- livrèrent
livrèrent
24,150 corpus weight
- lobotomie
lobotomie
24,148 corpus weight
- loisible
loisible
24,146 corpus weight
- loom
loom
24,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lobotomie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lobotomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.bɔ.tɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lobotomie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lobotomie is uncommon French at frequency #75,853 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.bɔ.tɔ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intervention chirurgicale sur le cerveau consistant en une section de la substance blanche du lobe frontal afin d'isoler le cortex préfrontal du reste du cerveau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lobotomie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 lobotomie, spelled L-O-B-O-T-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Intervention chirurgicale sur le cerveau consistant en une section de la substance blanche du lobe frontal afin d'isoler le cortex préfrontal du reste du cerveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lobotomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En compilant les publications relatant les opérations de lobotomie réalisées en France, Suisse et Belgique, entre 1935 et 1985, les trois médecins ont découvert que 84 % des patients – devrait-on dire des victimes ? – de cette chirurgie du cerveau étaient des femmes.
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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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