odontologie
\ɔ.dɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“odontologie” is uncommon French (frequency #65,365 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,365
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude et pratique médicale et chirurgicale des soins dentaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-odontologie · odontologie · French
odontologie · rank #65,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,365
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OCC
Nearest frequency peer: OCC (-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 « odontologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- numérisée
numérisée
34,640 corpus weight
- obéissante
obéissante
34,638 corpus weight
- OCC
OCC
34,637 corpus weight
- odontologie
odontologie
34,636 corpus weight
- onomatopées
onomatopées
34,634 corpus weight
- optima
optima
34,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « odontologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odontologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.dɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « odontologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
odontologie is uncommon French at frequency #65,365 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.dɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude et pratique médicale et chirurgicale des soins dentaires.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for odontologie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is odontologie, spelled O-D-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude et pratique médicale et chirurgicale des soins dentaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odontologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dentisterie restauratrice en rapport avec le parodonte comprend la prothèse fixée pour le traitement de l’édentement et la prothèse unitaire ou l’odontologie restauratrice, collée ou scellée.
Chaque année, des dizaines de jeunes Français partent se former à la médecine ou à l’odontologie dans des cursus francophones en Roumanie, en Espagne ou encore en Hongrie, profitant de modalités d’accès plus avantageuses.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).