ovocyte
\ɔ.vɔ.sit\
The verdict
“ovocyte” is uncommon French (frequency #80,477 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,477
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule germinale femelle située dans l’épaisseur du parenchyme ovarien et dont la maturation nucléaire et cytoplasmique l’amène à l’état d’ovule fécondable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovocyte · ovocyte · French
ovocyte · rank #80,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,477
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Orsenna
Nearest frequency peer: Orsenna (-3 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 « ovocyte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orignaux
orignaux
19,530 corpus weight
- orpaillage
orpaillage
19,528 corpus weight
- Orsenna
Orsenna
19,527 corpus weight
- ovocyte
ovocyte
19,524 corpus weight
- Painlevé
Painlevé
19,521 corpus weight
- painter
painter
19,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ovocyte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovocyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.vɔ.sit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ovocyte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ovocyte is uncommon French at frequency #80,477 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.vɔ.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cellule germinale femelle située dans l’épaisseur du parenchyme ovarien et dont la maturation nucléaire et cytoplasmique l’amène à l’état d’ovule fécondable.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ovocyte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ovocyte, spelled O-V-O-C-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cellule germinale femelle située dans l’épaisseur du parenchyme ovarien et dont la maturation nucléaire et cytoplasmique l’amène à l’état d’ovule fécondable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ovocyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que se passe-t-il lors d’une reproduction sexuée naturelle? Chez l’homme et les mammifères, la reproduction sexuée ordinaire nécessite la rencontre entre deux cellules sexuelles, le gamète mâle ou spermatozoïde, et le gamète femelle, l'ovocyte souvent appelé par abus de langage ovule.
Une variante de la technique consiste à microinjecter le noyau du spermatozoïde directement dans l’ovocyte de hamster afin de vérifier si la décondensation a lieu directement après les traitements de séparation.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "ovocyte"?
What does "ovocyte" mean?
How do you pronounce "ovocyte"?
What language does "ovocyte" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ovocyte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).