médecine familiale
\me.də.sin fa.mi.ljal\
The verdict
“médecine familiale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Branche de la médecine qui prend en charge les patients sans se limiter à des groupes de maladies relevant d'un organe, d'un âge, ou d'un sexe particulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medecine-familiale · médecine familiale · French
médecine familiale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médecine familiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.də.sin fa.mi.ljal\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “médecine familiale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
médecine familiale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.də.sin fa.mi.ljal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Branche de la médecine qui prend en charge les patients sans se limiter à des groupes de maladies relevant d'un organe, d'un âge, ou d'un sexe particulier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for médecine familiale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is médecine familiale, spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N-E- -F-A-M-I-L-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Branche de la médecine qui prend en charge les patients sans se limiter à des groupes de maladies relevant d'un organe, d'un âge, ou d'un sexe particulier.
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