méiose
\me.jɔz\
The verdict
“méiose” is uncommon French (frequency #90,963 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,963
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des deux divisions cellulaires aboutissant à la formation du gamète par réduction chromatique.
| 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) |
Where “méiose” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
méiose is uncommon French at frequency #90,963 among 202,672 “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.
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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Using “méiose”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-É-I-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \me.jɔz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.