ophtalmologiste
\ɔf.tal.mɔ.lɔ.ʒist\
The verdict
“ophtalmologiste” is uncommon French (frequency #72,589 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,589
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ophtalmologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ophtalmologiste · ophtalmologiste · French
ophtalmologiste · rank #72,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,589
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oriol
Nearest frequency peer: oriol (+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 « ophtalmologiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oft
oft
27,415 corpus weight
- often
often
27,414 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologiste
27,412 corpus weight
- oriol
oriol
27,411 corpus weight
- ornithologue
ornithologue
27,410 corpus weight
- oster
oster
27,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ophtalmologiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ophtalmologiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔf.tal.mɔ.lɔ.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #72,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ophtalmologiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ophtalmologiste is uncommon French at frequency #72,589 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔf.tal.mɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ophtalmologiste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ophtalmologiste, spelled O-P-H-T-A-L-M-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ophtalmologie.
- 2Médecin spécialisé dans les yeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ophtalmologiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après approbation par le tribunal, un ophtalmologiste expert peut demander à un autre ophtalmologiste son aide comme sapiteur sur une question précise.
Je pense notamment au LBD dont le Défenseur des droits a demandé l’interdiction et sur lequel même des ophtalmologistes ont alerté.
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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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