salmonella
\sæl.məˈnɛl.ə\
The verdict
“salmonella” is uncommon French (frequency #87,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salmonelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salmonella · salmonella · French
salmonella · rank #87,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,133
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salsifis
Nearest frequency peer: salsifis (+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 « salmonella »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rôdait
rôdait
12,872 corpus weight
- sacrifiez
sacrifiez
12,871 corpus weight
- salar
salar
12,870 corpus weight
- salmonella
salmonella
12,868 corpus weight
- salsifis
salsifis
12,867 corpus weight
- sanctum
sanctum
12,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salmonella » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salmonella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sæl.məˈnɛl.ə\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salmonella » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salmonella is uncommon French at frequency #87,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sæl.məˈnɛl.ə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salmonelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salmonella, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salmonella, spelled S-A-L-M-O-N-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Salmonelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salmonella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Everyone got sick from salmonella in the undercooked meat.
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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