sarcome
\saʁ.kom\
The verdict
“sarcome” is uncommon French (frequency #72,720 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,720
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tumeur qui a la consistance de la chair qui se forme aux dépens du tissu conjonctif ou des tissus qui en dérivent comme le tissu musculaire, l'os.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarcome · sarcome · French
sarcome · rank #72,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sastre
Nearest frequency peer: sastre (+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 « sarcome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Salieri
Salieri
27,285 corpus weight
- Samer
Samer
27,284 corpus weight
- sarcome
sarcome
27,281 corpus weight
- sastre
sastre
27,280 corpus weight
- satisfais
satisfais
27,279 corpus weight
- sautaient
sautaient
27,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarcome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.kom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarcome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarcome is uncommon French at frequency #72,720 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.kom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tumeur qui a la consistance de la chair qui se forme aux dépens du tissu conjonctif ou des tissus qui en dérivent comme le tissu musculaire, l'os.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sarcome in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sarcome, spelled S-A-R-C-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tumeur qui a la consistance de la chair qui se forme aux dépens du tissu conjonctif ou des tissus qui en dérivent comme le tissu musculaire, l'os.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarcome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après les analyses, la tumeur était un sarcome d’une extrême virulence, qui avait commencé d’essaimer dans tout l’organisme.
La coupe de la tumeur montra le sarcome et le gigantome très voisins l'un de l'autre … offrant des fibroblastes normaux et sans réaction inflammatoire
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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