neuroscience
\nø.ʁɔ.sjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“neuroscience” is uncommon French (frequency #63,952 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,952
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science transdisciplinaire (notamment neurobiologie, chimie, mathématiques, bio-informatique, neuropsychologie) qui étudie certains aspects des neurones et du système nerveux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neuroscience · neuroscience · French
neuroscience · rank #63,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,952
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH natio
Nearest frequency peer: natio (-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 « neuroscience »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mésanges
mésanges
36,054 corpus weight
- nageait
nageait
36,053 corpus weight
- natio
natio
36,050 corpus weight
- neuroscience
neuroscience
36,049 corpus weight
- neurotransm…
neurotransmetteurs
36,048 corpus weight
- nir
nir
36,045 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « neuroscience » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neuroscience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nø.ʁɔ.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « neuroscience » en français
Rare enough to double-check
neuroscience is uncommon French at frequency #63,952 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nø.ʁɔ.sjɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Science transdisciplinaire (notamment neurobiologie, chimie, mathématiques, bio-informatique, neuropsychologie) qui étudie certains aspects des neurones et du système nerveux.".
neuroscience has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is neuroscience, spelled N-E-U-R-O-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Science transdisciplinaire (notamment neurobiologie, chimie, mathématiques, bio-informatique, neuropsychologie) qui étudie certains aspects des neurones et du système nerveux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how neuroscience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec un souci commun de conceptualisation et de modélisation théorique, ces disciplines ont fécondé un nouveau champ de recherches : la neuroscience, née en 1971, aux États-Unis, avec la première réunion de la Society of Neuroscience.
Notre première incursion dans les neurosciences de la vie mentale inconsciente est bien loin de remettre en cause la conception scientifique classique qui dominait les esprits depuis un siècle. — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 55)
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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