postopératoire
\pɔs.tɔ.pe.ʁa.twaʁ\
The verdict
“postopératoire” is uncommon French (frequency #79,632 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,632
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a lieu après une opération chirurgicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postoperatoire · postopératoire · French
postopératoire · rank #79,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,632
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poupart
Nearest frequency peer: poupart (+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 « postopératoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pompiste
pompiste
20,373 corpus weight
- poncif
poncif
20,372 corpus weight
- ponds
ponds
20,371 corpus weight
- postopérato…
postopératoire
20,369 corpus weight
- poupart
poupart
20,368 corpus weight
- praticité
praticité
20,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postopératoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postopératoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔs.tɔ.pe.ʁa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #79,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postopératoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postopératoire is uncommon French at frequency #79,632 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔs.tɔ.pe.ʁa.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a lieu après une opération chirurgicale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for postopératoire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is postopératoire, spelled P-O-S-T-O-P-É-R-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a lieu après une opération chirurgicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postopératoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'inhibition diaphragmatique postopératoire a été confirmée plus récemment par des études faisant appel à l’électromyographie du diaphragme qui témoigne de façon plus directe de la fonction du diaphragme.
Sur Twitter, Sandra raconte qu’une amie, en consultation postopératoire, a enregistré sa chirurgienne par « peur de ne pas tout retenir ».
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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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