oedème
\e.dɛm\
The verdict
“oedème” is uncommon French (frequency #58,127 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a typographic variant. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,127
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante par contrainte typographique d’œdème.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oedeme · oedème · French
oedème · rank #58,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,127
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH octet
Nearest frequency peer: octet (-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 « oedème »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obstétricien
obstétricien
41,877 corpus weight
- oceanic
oceanic
41,876 corpus weight
- octet
octet
41,875 corpus weight
- oedème
oedème
41,874 corpus weight
- oncologue
oncologue
41,873 corpus weight
- opuscule
opuscule
41,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oedème » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oedème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \e.dɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oedème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oedème is uncommon French at frequency #58,127 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as atypographic variant, transcribed \e.dɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante par contrainte typographique d’œdème.".
Zero misspellings are on record for oedème in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 oedème, spelled O-E-D-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Variante par contrainte typographique d’œdème.
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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