mycologie
\mi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“mycologie” is uncommon French (frequency #90,961 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,961
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science qui étudie les champignons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mycologie · mycologie · French
mycologie · rank #90,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,961
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mènerons
Nearest frequency peer: mènerons (+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 « mycologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mummy
mummy
9,044 corpus weight
- muti
muti
9,043 corpus weight
- mutt
mutt
9,042 corpus weight
- mycologie
mycologie
9,040 corpus weight
- mènerons
mènerons
9,039 corpus weight
- méiose
méiose
9,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mycologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mycologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mycologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mycologie is uncommon French at frequency #90,961 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Science qui étudie les champignons.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mycologie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mycologie, spelled M-Y-C-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science qui étudie les champignons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mycologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mycologie !… À peine une distraction moins bête que le bésigue, le nain jaune, les dominos ou le jaquet.
L’étude scientifique des champignons porte le nom de mycologie, un terme qui apparut vers la fin du 18ᵉ siècle devant la nécessité de plus en plus évidente de distinguer l'étude des champignons de celle des plantes.
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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