myéline
\mje.lin\
The verdict
“myéline” is uncommon French (frequency #82,256 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,256
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance de protection des fibres nerveuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-myeline · myéline · French
myéline · rank #82,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,256
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multiplièrent
Nearest frequency peer: multiplièrent (-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 « myéline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mour
mour
17,748 corpus weight
- mul
mul
17,747 corpus weight
- multiplière…
multiplièrent
17,746 corpus weight
- myéline
myéline
17,745 corpus weight
- mécontenter
mécontenter
17,744 corpus weight
- médicalisat…
médicalisation
17,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « myéline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | myéline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mje.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « myéline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
myéline is uncommon French at frequency #82,256 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mje.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance de protection des fibres nerveuses.".
myéline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is myéline, spelled M-Y-É-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Substance de protection des fibres nerveuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how myéline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La leucodystrophie, comme de nombreuses autres maladies orphelines, provoque une dégénérescence de la myéline.
[La sclérose en plaques] le mécanisme de cette maladie correspond dans tous les cas à une atteinte de la gaine de substance blanche qui entoure les fibres nerveuses du système nerveux central, il devient possible de décrire ces signes comme étant « une dissémination spatiale et temporelle de signes compatibles avec une atteinte de la myéline centrale ». —…
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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