mitochondrial
\mi.to.kɔ̃.dʁi.jal\
The verdict
“mitochondrial” is uncommon French (frequency #80,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,427
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la mitochondrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitochondrial · mitochondrial · French
mitochondrial · rank #80,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,427
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mitchum
Nearest frequency peer: Mitchum (-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 « mitochondrial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minimalement
minimalement
19,577 corpus weight
- miradors
miradors
19,576 corpus weight
- Mitchum
Mitchum
19,575 corpus weight
- mitochondri…
mitochondrial
19,574 corpus weight
- modifiables
modifiables
19,571 corpus weight
- mof
mof
19,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitochondrial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitochondrial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.to.kɔ̃.dʁi.jal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #80,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitochondrial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitochondrial is uncommon French at frequency #80,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.to.kɔ̃.dʁi.jal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la mitochondrie.".
mitochondrial doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mitochondrial, spelled M-I-T-O-C-H-O-N-D-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la mitochondrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mitochondrial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’identification de ces partenaires mitochondriaux des protéines pro-apoptotiques Bax et Bak permet de relier la machinerie d’importation des protéines de la membrane externe à la régulation des fonctions de ces protéines.
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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