mucoviscidose
\my.ko.vi.si.doz\
The verdict
“mucoviscidose” is uncommon French (frequency #57,439 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,439
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affection héréditaire, caractérisée par une trop grande viscosité des sécrétions bronchiques et digestives.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mucoviscidose · mucoviscidose · French
mucoviscidose · rank #57,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,439
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moulées
Nearest frequency peer: moulées (-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 « mucoviscidose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mortuaires
mortuaires
42,565 corpus weight
- moui
moui
42,564 corpus weight
- moulées
moulées
42,563 corpus weight
- mucoviscido…
mucoviscidose
42,562 corpus weight
- multifoncti…
multifonctionnel
42,561 corpus weight
- multilatéra…
multilatérale
42,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mucoviscidose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mucoviscidose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ko.vi.si.doz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #57,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mucoviscidose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mucoviscidose is uncommon French at frequency #57,439 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.ko.vi.si.doz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affection héréditaire, caractérisée par une trop grande viscosité des sécrétions bronchiques et digestives.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mucoviscidose in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mucoviscidose, spelled M-U-C-O-V-I-S-C-I-D-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Affection héréditaire, caractérisée par une trop grande viscosité des sécrétions bronchiques et digestives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mucoviscidose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le traitement médical de la mucoviscidose est complexe.
Depuis le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2023, ces tests permettent de repérer treize maladies graves (contre six auparavant), souvent d’origine génétique. Leurs noms savants : phénylcétonurie, hypothyroïdie congénitale, hyperplasie congénitale des surrénales, drépanocytose, mucoviscidose, déficit en MCAD, leucinose, homocystinurie, tyrosinémie de type 1, acidurie glutariqu…
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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