physicienne
\fi.zi.sjɛn\
The verdict
“physicienne” is uncommon French (frequency #76,891 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,891
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme spécialiste de la physique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-physicienne · physicienne · French
physicienne · rank #76,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,891
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharisien
Nearest frequency peer: pharisien (-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 « physicienne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- performeur
performeur
23,113 corpus weight
- peshmergas
peshmergas
23,112 corpus weight
- pharisien
pharisien
23,111 corpus weight
- physicienne
physicienne
23,110 corpus weight
- pica
pica
23,108 corpus weight
- pigmentaire
pigmentaire
23,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « physicienne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | physicienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.zi.sjɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « physicienne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
physicienne is uncommon French at frequency #76,891 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.zi.sjɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for physicienne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is physicienne, spelled P-H-Y-S-I-C-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme spécialiste de la physique.
- 2Professionnelle de santé chargée de guérir et soigner les maladies, les pathologies, les blessures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how physicienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi Donna Strickland n’a-t-elle été que la troisième femme physicienne à recevoir un prix Nobel ?
Sur la foi seule du ms. 2022, Chéreau a cru pouvoir le compter au nombre des médecins de saint Louis, ce qui est probable, mais nullement démontré, et cet auteur le cite entre Robert de Douai, Dude de Laon, Roger de Fournival et cette maîtresse Hèrsend qui, à titre de physicienne, accompagna en Palestine le roi saint Louis et la reine Marguerite.
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); 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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