narcolepsie

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for narcolepsie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \naʁ.kɔ.lɛp.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,023 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Condition neurologique caractérisée par des épisodes irrésistibles de sommeil et un désordre du sommeil général.".

No misspelling variants are generated for narcolepsie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is narcolepsie, spelled N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.