mammographie
\ma.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“mammographie” is uncommon French (frequency #71,682 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de radiographie particulièrement adaptée à la détection des anomalies des seins de la femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mammographie · mammographie · French
mammographie · rank #71,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,682
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malencontreuse
Nearest frequency peer: malencontreuse (-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 « mammographie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luger
luger
28,323 corpus weight
- malencontre…
malencontreuse
28,320 corpus weight
- mammographie
mammographie
28,319 corpus weight
- manageur
manageur
28,318 corpus weight
- Marcella
Marcella
28,316 corpus weight
- Marinette
Marinette
28,315 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mammographie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mammographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mammographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mammographie is uncommon French at frequency #71,682 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mammographie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mammographie, spelled M-A-M-M-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Technique de radiographie particulièrement adaptée à la détection des anomalies des seins de la femme.
- 2L’image obtenue par cette technique (mammogramme).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mammographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’échographie s’intègre dans la démarche diagnostique, comprenant l’examen clinique et, sauf cas particuliers, la mammographie à tous les stades de la prise en charge de la patiente en sénologie.
Tout comme un tube radiogène classique, les tubes de mammographie proposent deux tailles de foyers optiques en fonction de la charge thermique souhaitée.
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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