réticulum
\ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\
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
- répercutée
répercutée
10,882 corpus weight
- répulsifs
répulsifs
10,880 corpus weight
- réticulum
réticulum
10,878 corpus weight
- réunifier
réunifier
10,877 corpus weight
- réussissais
réussissais
10,876 corpus weight
- réécritures
réécritures
10,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réticulum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réticulum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ti.ky.lɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réticulum » en français
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
- 1Seconde poche de l'estomac d'un ruminant.
- 2Organite présent dans les cellules eucaryotes, élément essentiel du réseau membranaire interne des cellules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réticulum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le réticulum sarcoplasmique est le nom donné au réticulum endoplasmique lisse des cellules musculaires striées squelettiques.
La face externe de la membrane du réticulum est en contact avec le cytoplasme, la face interne avec le contenu du réticulum.
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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