photothérapie
\fɔ.tɔ.te.ʁa.pi\
The verdict
“photothérapie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traitement de certaines maladies par divers rayonnements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phototherapie · photothérapie · French
photothérapie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | photothérapie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.tɔ.te.ʁa.pi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « photothérapie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
photothérapie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.tɔ.te.ʁa.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traitement de certaines maladies par divers rayonnements.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for photothérapie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is photothérapie, spelled P-H-O-T-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Traitement de certaines maladies par divers rayonnements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how photothérapie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La photothérapie pourrait donc agir en corrigeant certains de ces désordres immunologiques.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.