radioprotection
\ʁa.djo.pʁo.tək.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“radioprotection” is uncommon French (frequency #52,937 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,937
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des méthodes et des moyens utilisés pour la protection des personnes contre les rayonnements ionisants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radioprotection · radioprotection · French
radioprotection · rank #52,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,937
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Raspoutine
Nearest frequency peer: Raspoutine (+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 « radioprotection »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétrochimie
pétrochimie
47,068 corpus weight
- quantitatifs
quantitatifs
47,067 corpus weight
- raccordé
raccordé
47,066 corpus weight
- radioprotec…
radioprotection
47,064 corpus weight
- Raspoutine
Raspoutine
47,063 corpus weight
- rectal
rectal
47,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radioprotection » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radioprotection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.djo.pʁo.tək.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #52,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radioprotection » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radioprotection is uncommon French at frequency #52,937 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.djo.pʁo.tək.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble des méthodes et des moyens utilisés pour la protection des personnes contre les rayonnements ionisants.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for radioprotection in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is radioprotection, spelled R-A-D-I-O-P-R-O-T-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des méthodes et des moyens utilisés pour la protection des personnes contre les rayonnements ionisants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how radioprotection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maire de Montigny-sur-Aube (Côte-d’Or), il a fini sa carrière comme délégué à la sûreté nucléaire et à la radioprotection pour les activités et les installations intéressant la Défense, et président du comité d’orientation de la Direction de l’expertise nucléaire de défense…
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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