rhumatologie
\ʁy.ma.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“rhumatologie” is uncommon French (frequency #76,981 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,981
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialité médicale qui s'intéresse au diagnostic et au traitement des rhumatismes inflammatoires et des maladies de l'appareil locomoteur, c'est-à-dire des maladies des os, des articulations, des ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhumatologie · rhumatologie · French
rhumatologie · rank #76,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,981
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhinite
Nearest frequency peer: rhinite (-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 « rhumatologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressortez
ressortez
23,024 corpus weight
- Reuilly
Reuilly
23,023 corpus weight
- revêche
revêche
23,022 corpus weight
- rhinite
rhinite
23,021 corpus weight
- rhumatologie
rhumatologie
23,020 corpus weight
- ricochets
ricochets
23,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhumatologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhumatologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.ma.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhumatologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhumatologie is uncommon French at frequency #76,981 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.ma.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialité médicale qui s'intéresse au diagnostic et au traitement des rhumatismes inflammatoires et des maladies de l'appareil locomoteur, c'est-à-dire des maladies des os, des articulations, des ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rhumatologie, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rhumatologie, spelled R-H-U-M-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialité médicale qui s'intéresse au diagnostic et au traitement des rhumatismes inflammatoires et des maladies de l'appareil locomoteur, c'est-à-dire des maladies des os, des articulations, des muscles, des tendons et des ligaments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rhumatologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rhumatologie intéresse toutes les maladies des os, des articulations et des éléments qui les entourent, soit les 4 membres bien sûr, mais également l’axe du tronc, la colonne vertébrale.
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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