rhumatologie
\ʁy.ma.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“rhumatologie” is uncommon French (frequency #76,981 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,981
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
| 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) |
Where “rhumatologie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rhumatologie is uncommon French at frequency #76,981 among 507,453 “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.
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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Using “rhumatologie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-H-U-M-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.