ostéoporose
\ɔs.te.o.pɔ.ʁoz\
The verdict
“ostéoporose” is uncommon French (frequency #51,015 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,015
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perte progressive de masse osseuse, qui se traduit par une diminution de la densité osseuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osteoporose · ostéoporose · French
ostéoporose · rank #51,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,015
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ostéopathe
Nearest frequency peer: ostéopathe (-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 « ostéoporose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- organisatri…
organisatrices
48,989 corpus weight
- Ossétie
Ossétie
48,988 corpus weight
- ostéopathe
ostéopathe
48,987 corpus weight
- ostéoporose
ostéoporose
48,986 corpus weight
- outdoor
outdoor
48,984 corpus weight
- Outreau
Outreau
48,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ostéoporose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostéoporose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.te.o.pɔ.ʁoz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ostéoporose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ostéoporose is uncommon French at frequency #51,015 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔs.te.o.pɔ.ʁoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perte progressive de masse osseuse, qui se traduit par une diminution de la densité osseuse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ostéoporose in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ostéoporose, spelled O-S-T-É-O-P-O-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Perte progressive de masse osseuse, qui se traduit par une diminution de la densité osseuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ostéoporose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une soudaine et violente douleur dans le bas du dos, urgences, verdict : rupture de deux vertèbres. Ostéoporose. Rien n’y fait. La douleur s’installe, souveraine, rayonnante de méchanceté, et ne s’en va plus. Dès les premiers pas, elle mord. Je dois réduire la marche au strict indispensable, et ne pas oublier ma canne. Fini d’arpenter Paris à grandes foul…
L’ostéoporose est une maladie qui entraîne une diminution de la densité de l’os et augmente le risque de fractures.
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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