mononucléose
\mɔ.no.ny.kle.oz\
The verdict
“mononucléose” is uncommon French (frequency #67,707 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,707
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infection bénigne, provoquée par le virus d’Epstein-Barr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mononucleose · mononucléose · French
mononucléose · rank #67,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,707
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mola
Nearest frequency peer: mola (-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 « mononucléose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MOBA
MOBA
32,297 corpus weight
- moignon
moignon
32,296 corpus weight
- mola
mola
32,295 corpus weight
- mononucléose
mononucléose
32,294 corpus weight
- montanier
montanier
32,293 corpus weight
- mordiller
mordiller
32,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mononucléose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mononucléose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.no.ny.kle.oz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mononucléose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mononucléose is uncommon French at frequency #67,707 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.no.ny.kle.oz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Infection bénigne, provoquée par le virus d’Epstein-Barr.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mononucléose, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mononucléose, spelled M-O-N-O-N-U-C-L-É-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Infection bénigne, provoquée par le virus d’Epstein-Barr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mononucléose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mononucléose infectieuse est une maladie bénigne, mais elle est suivie d’une longue convalescence.
J’ai coulé l’Atlantide, et encore, je me rappelle, j’avais la mononucléose. — (Daniel Nayeri, Coco et Cloclo, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres histoires fantastiques et déglinguées, traduit de l’anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec, Hélium, 2008, page 336)
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).