salmonelle
\sal.mɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“salmonelle” is uncommon French (frequency #94,244 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,244
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bactérie du genre Salmonella.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salmonelle · salmonelle · French
salmonelle · rank #94,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,244
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salières
Nearest frequency peer: salières (-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 « salmonelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sakurai
Sakurai
5,761 corpus weight
- Salignac
Salignac
5,760 corpus weight
- salières
salières
5,758 corpus weight
- salmonelle
salmonelle
5,757 corpus weight
- sampling
sampling
5,755 corpus weight
- sants
sants
5,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salmonelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salmonelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.mɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salmonelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salmonelle is uncommon French at frequency #94,244 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sal.mɔ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bactérie du genre Salmonella.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salmonelle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 salmonelle, spelled S-A-L-M-O-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bactérie du genre Salmonella.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salmonelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même s'ils semblent propres, ces animaux, comme les poules ou les canards, peuvent transporter la salmonelle, une bactérie pouvant provoquer diarrhées, fièvre et vomissements, ont prévenu les CDC.
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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