mycélium
\mi.se.ljɔm\
The verdict
“mycélium” is uncommon French (frequency #71,725 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,725
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de filaments plus ou moins ramifiés formant la partie végétative des champignons (eumycètes).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mycelium · mycélium · French
mycélium · rank #71,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,725
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mécanisée
Nearest frequency peer: mécanisée (+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 « mycélium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muezzin
muezzin
28,280 corpus weight
- mycélium
mycélium
28,276 corpus weight
- mécanisée
mécanisée
28,275 corpus weight
- mélisse
mélisse
28,273 corpus weight
- mélodieuse
mélodieuse
28,272 corpus weight
- mémoriel
mémoriel
28,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mycélium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mycélium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.se.ljɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mycélium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mycélium is uncommon French at frequency #71,725 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.se.ljɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble de filaments plus ou moins ramifiés formant la partie végétative des champignons (eumycètes).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mycélium in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mycélium, spelled M-Y-C-É-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de filaments plus ou moins ramifiés formant la partie végétative des champignons (eumycètes).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mycélium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les champignons tiennent le milieu entre les algues et les lichens. Ils naissent de petites agglomérations de fibres blanches, soyeuses, adhérentes au sol, qui le couvrent parfois d’une sorte de germination poussiéreuse, pareille à des traînées de farine. Nos paysans appellent cette sorte de moisissure « la mère des ceps ». Elle ne leur est point particul…
On sait que les conidies uninucléées sont susceptibles de dédiploïdiser le mycélium ; elles nous offraient donc un moyen détourné pour obtenir des mycéliums primaires.
Synonyms
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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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