parthénogénèse
\paʁ.te.no.ʒe.nɛz\
The verdict
“parthénogénèse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mode de reproduction où l’ovule se développe sans fécondation, mais qui nécessite tout de même l’intervention d’un gamète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parthenogenese · parthénogénèse · French
parthénogénèse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parthénogénèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.te.no.ʒe.nɛz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parthénogénèse” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
parthénogénèse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \paʁ.te.no.ʒe.nɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mode de reproduction où l’ovule se développe sans fécondation, mais qui nécessite tout de même l’intervention d’un gamète.".
No misspelling variants are generated for parthénogénèse in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is parthénogénèse, spelled P-A-R-T-H-É-N-O-G-É-N-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Mode de reproduction où l’ovule se développe sans fécondation, mais qui nécessite tout de même l’intervention d’un gamète.
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