réticulum

\ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\

/\ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\/ noun

The verdict

“réticulum” is uncommon French (frequency #89,123 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,123
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seconde poche de l'estomac d'un ruminant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reticulum · réticulum · French

réticulum · rank #89,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,123
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH réunifier

Nearest frequency peer: réunifier (+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 « réticulum »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réticulum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for réticulum
PropertyValue
Headwordréticulum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\
Letters9
Frequency rank#89,123
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « réticulum » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.réticulumtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « réunifier » (#89,124), « répulsifs » (#89,121), « réussissais » (#89,125). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « réticulum » est au #89,123. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

réticulum is uncommon French at frequency #89,123 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for réticulum, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 réticulum, spelled R-É-T-I-C-U-L-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Seconde poche de l'estomac d'un ruminant.
  2. 2
    Organite présent dans les cellules eucaryotes, élément essentiel du réseau membranaire interne des cellules.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how réticulum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le réticulum sarcoplasmique est le nom donné au réticulum endoplasmique lisse des cellules musculaires striées squelettiques.
  2. La face externe de la membrane du réticulum est en contact avec le cytoplasme, la face interne avec le contenu du réticulum.

Synonyms

bonnetréseauergastoplasme

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réticulum"?
"réticulum" is spelled R-É-T-I-C-U-L-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\.
What does "réticulum" mean?
As a noun, "réticulum" means: Seconde poche de l'estomac d'un ruminant.
How do you pronounce "réticulum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réticulum" is \ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "réticulum", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list