médicalisation
\me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“médicalisation” is uncommon French (frequency #82,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,258
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medicalisation · médicalisation · French
médicalisation · rank #82,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,258
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mécontenter
Nearest frequency peer: mécontenter (-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 « médicalisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multiplière…
multiplièrent
17,746 corpus weight
- myéline
myéline
17,745 corpus weight
- mécontenter
mécontenter
17,744 corpus weight
- médicalisat…
médicalisation
17,743 corpus weight
- médisant
médisant
17,742 corpus weight
- métabolite
métabolite
17,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médicalisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médicalisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #82,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médicalisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médicalisation is uncommon French at frequency #82,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.di.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.".
No misspelling variants are generated for médicalisation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médicalisation, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de médicaliser, de confier quelque chose aux soins de la médecine, de donner un caractère médical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how médicalisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Telle une déferlante, la médicalisation de la mer refoulera hors des usages courants la balnéophilie marginale de ces précurseurs indisciplinés.
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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