mastectomie
\ma.stɛk.to.mi\
The verdict
“mastectomie” is uncommon French (frequency #81,330 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,330
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Intervention chirurgicale qui consiste en l’ablation d'un ou des seins, habituellement pratiquée dans le cadre du traitement du cancer du sein, ou pour accompagner la transition d'une personne tran...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mastectomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.stɛk.to.mi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mastectomie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mastectomie is uncommon French at frequency #81,330 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.stɛk.to.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intervention chirurgicale qui consiste en l’ablation d'un ou des seins, habituellement pratiquée dans le cadre du traitement du cancer du sein, ou pour accompagner la transition d'une personne tran...".
mastectomie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mastectomie, spelled M-A-S-T-E-C-T-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Intervention chirurgicale qui consiste en l’ablation d'un ou des seins, habituellement pratiquée dans le cadre du traitement du cancer du sein, ou pour accompagner la transition d'une personne transgenre FtM.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-S-T-E-C-T-O-M-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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