phénotype
\fe.nɔ.tip\
The verdict
“phénotype” is uncommon French (frequency #52,898 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’un caractère observable chez un organisme vivant (anatomique, morphologique, moléculaire, physiologique, ou éthologique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-phenotype · phénotype · French
phénotype · rank #52,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,898
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH physical
Nearest frequency peer: physical (-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 « phénotype »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percussionn…
percussionniste
47,106 corpus weight
- perturbées
perturbées
47,105 corpus weight
- physical
physical
47,104 corpus weight
- phénotype
phénotype
47,103 corpus weight
- pillées
pillées
47,102 corpus weight
- placerait
placerait
47,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phénotype » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phénotype |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.nɔ.tip\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phénotype » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phénotype is uncommon French at frequency #52,898 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fe.nɔ.tip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État d’un caractère observable chez un organisme vivant (anatomique, morphologique, moléculaire, physiologique, ou éthologique).".
No misspelling variants are generated for phénotype in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is phénotype, spelled P-H-É-N-O-T-Y-P-E.
Definition
- 1État d’un caractère observable chez un organisme vivant (anatomique, morphologique, moléculaire, physiologique, ou éthologique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phénotype appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, la résistance aux aminosides qui ne concernait, jusqu’en 1975, que la streptomycine et la kanamycine a été modifiée par l’apparition cette même année de deux nouveaux phénotypes de résistance plasmidique.
Le phénotype d’un individu est le résultat de l’action conjointe, exprimée, de l’ensemble de ses gènes et de l’environnement. Les gènes qui contribuent au phénotype constituent ensemble le génotype de l’animal.
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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