microbiote
\mi.kʁɔ.bjɔt\
The verdict
“microbiote” is uncommon French (frequency #59,447 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,447
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Population de micro-organismes vivant en accord avec son hôte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microbiote · microbiote · French
microbiote · rank #59,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,447
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meuniers
Nearest frequency peer: meuniers (-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 « microbiote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mesme
mesme
40,558 corpus weight
- Messins
Messins
40,557 corpus weight
- meuniers
meuniers
40,555 corpus weight
- microbiote
microbiote
40,554 corpus weight
- Millennium
Millennium
40,552 corpus weight
- miraculeuses
miraculeuses
40,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microbiote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microbiote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.bjɔt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microbiote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microbiote is uncommon French at frequency #59,447 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.bjɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Population de micro-organismes vivant en accord avec son hôte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for microbiote in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is microbiote, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Population de micro-organismes vivant en accord avec son hôte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microbiote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il ne vient pas forcément à l’esprit de faire une cure de probiotiques, ils sont pourtant les acteurs phares de notre microbiote intestinal.
Par ailleurs, on sait aujourd'hui que le système immunitaire d'un animal dénué de microbiote est immature et dysfonctionnel.
Synonyms
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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