Plasmodium
The verdict
“Plasmodium” is uncommon French (frequency #91,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Parasitologie) Plasmodium, plasmode.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plasmodium · Plasmodium · French
Plasmodium · rank #91,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,036
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaintif
Nearest frequency peer: plaintif (-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 « Plasmodium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phéniciennes
phéniciennes
8,969 corpus weight
- pichette
pichette
8,968 corpus weight
- plaintif
plaintif
8,966 corpus weight
- Plasmodium
Plasmodium
8,965 corpus weight
- plastoc
plastoc
8,964 corpus weight
- pleural
pleural
8,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Plasmodium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Plasmodium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Plasmodium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Plasmodium is uncommon French at frequency #91,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Parasitologie) Plasmodium, plasmode.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Plasmodium in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Plasmodium, spelled P-L-A-S-M-O-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1(Parasitologie) Plasmodium, plasmode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Plasmodium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parasite Plasmodium est transmis à l’homme par une piqûre d’anophèle, moustique des régions chaudes. Il infecte ensuite les globules rouges et les cellules du foie au cours du cycle parasitaire.
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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