myélome
\mje.lom\
The verdict
“myélome” is uncommon French (frequency #95,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,089
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tumeur d’une partie médullaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-myelome · myélome · French
myélome · rank #95,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,089
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH myocardique
Nearest frequency peer: myocardique (-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 « myélome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muqueux
muqueux
4,916 corpus weight
- mutique
mutique
4,915 corpus weight
- Mykola
Mykola
4,914 corpus weight
- myocardique
myocardique
4,913 corpus weight
- myélome
myélome
4,912 corpus weight
- mécanicienne
mécanicienne
4,910 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « myélome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | myélome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mje.lom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « myélome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
myélome is uncommon French at frequency #95,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mje.lom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tumeur d’une partie médullaire.".
myélome doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is myélome, spelled M-Y-É-L-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tumeur d’une partie médullaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how myélome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«J'avais entendu dire que la reine souffrait d'une forme de myélome – un cancer de la moelle osseuse –, ce qui expliquerait sa fatigue, sa perte de poids et ces "problèmes de mobilité" dont on nous a souvent parlé au cours de la dernière année de sa vie», écrit Brandreth dans son livre.
Le don de sang permet de soigner de nombreuses maladies et de nombreux cancers tels que leucémies, lymphomes, myélomes…
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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