phlébite
\fle.bit\
The verdict
“phlébite” is uncommon French (frequency #70,937 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation de la membrane interne des veines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phlebite · phlébite · French
phlébite · rank #70,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phalle
Nearest frequency peer: phalle (-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 « phlébite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pergélisol
pergélisol
29,069 corpus weight
- persiennes
persiennes
29,068 corpus weight
- pestiférés
pestiférés
29,066 corpus weight
- phalle
phalle
29,065 corpus weight
- phlébite
phlébite
29,064 corpus weight
- pietà
pietà
29,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phlébite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phlébite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fle.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phlébite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phlébite is uncommon French at frequency #70,937 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fle.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation de la membrane interne des veines.".
No misspelling variants are generated for phlébite in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is phlébite, spelled P-H-L-É-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation de la membrane interne des veines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phlébite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chose étrange, il est mort d`une pachyméningite cérébrale, d’une lésion de l'organe qui l'avait toujours occupé et auquel il avait consacré des leçons souvent magnifiques. Tel Trousseau diagnostiquant son propre cancer par la phlébite symptomatique qu'il avait le premier décrite. On dirait que, chez certains médecins, le mal commençant s'impose à leur esp…
— Marche donc pas si vite, Chalumot, dit sa mère, distancée. T’as pas pitié d’ma phlébite, on croirait. Tu sais pourtant qu’ma jambe me cogne de plus en plus…
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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