médullaire
\me.dy.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“médullaire” is uncommon French (frequency #60,980 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la moelle ou qui en a la nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medullaire · médullaire · French
médullaire · rank #60,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,980
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mélina
Nearest frequency peer: Mélina (+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 « médullaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mum
mum
39,025 corpus weight
- musiciennes
musiciennes
39,023 corpus weight
- médullaire
médullaire
39,021 corpus weight
- Mélina
Mélina
39,020 corpus weight
- mélèze
mélèze
39,019 corpus weight
- méritocratie
méritocratie
39,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médullaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médullaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.dy.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médullaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médullaire is uncommon French at frequency #60,980 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.dy.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient à la moelle ou qui en a la nature.".
No misspelling variants are generated for médullaire in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 médullaire, spelled M-É-D-U-L-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la moelle ou qui en a la nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médullaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hérode, Blazius et Scapin, qui étaient sur leur bouche et gourmands comme chats de dévote, se pourléchaient les babines à cette éloquence si grasse, si succulente et si bien nourrie qu’ils disaient hautement préférer à celle d’Isocrate, Démosthène, Eschine, Hortensius, Cicéro et autres tels bavards dont les phrases ne sont que viandes creuses et ne contie…
Vu au microscope, le poil se présente sous la forme d'un canal médullaire sur lequel on ne peut voir les écailles qu'en les observant avec beaucoup de soin, ….
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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