méiose
\me.jɔz\
The verdict
“méiose” is uncommon French (frequency #90,963 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,963
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des deux divisions cellulaires aboutissant à la formation du gamète par réduction chromatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meiose · méiose · French
méiose · rank #90,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,963
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mènerons
Nearest frequency peer: mènerons (-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 « méiose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muti
muti
9,043 corpus weight
- mutt
mutt
9,042 corpus weight
- mycologie
mycologie
9,040 corpus weight
- mènerons
mènerons
9,039 corpus weight
- méiose
méiose
9,038 corpus weight
- nae
nae
9,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méiose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méiose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.jɔz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méiose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méiose is uncommon French at frequency #90,963 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.jɔz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble des deux divisions cellulaires aboutissant à la formation du gamète par réduction chromatique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for méiose, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is méiose, spelled M-É-I-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des deux divisions cellulaires aboutissant à la formation du gamète par réduction chromatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méiose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La conception nécessite l’atteinte et la pénétration par le spermatozoïde de l’ovocyte, qui complète sa méiose II avant la fusion des deux noyaux lors de la fécondation ([…]).
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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