scintigraphie
\sɛ̃.ti.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“scintigraphie” is uncommon French (frequency #81,553 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,553
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imagerie médicale qui procède par l’administration, dans l’organisme, d’isotopes radioactifs dont le rayonnement est capté par les organes à examiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scintigraphie · scintigraphie · French
scintigraphie · rank #81,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,553
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schriften
Nearest frequency peer: Schriften (-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 « scintigraphie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- savonarole
savonarole
18,451 corpus weight
- Schriften
Schriften
18,449 corpus weight
- scintigraph…
scintigraphie
18,448 corpus weight
- sciés
sciés
18,447 corpus weight
- scoring
scoring
18,446 corpus weight
- scotchés
scotchés
18,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scintigraphie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scintigraphie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ti.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scintigraphie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scintigraphie is uncommon French at frequency #81,553 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.ti.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imagerie médicale qui procède par l’administration, dans l’organisme, d’isotopes radioactifs dont le rayonnement est capté par les organes à examiner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for scintigraphie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is scintigraphie, spelled S-C-I-N-T-I-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Imagerie médicale qui procède par l’administration, dans l’organisme, d’isotopes radioactifs dont le rayonnement est capté par les organes à examiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scintigraphie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scintigraphie renseigne sur la contractilité du myocarde.
La scintigraphie recherche, sur l’ensemble du squelette, l’existence de lésions secondaires osseuses du cancer de la prostate.
Synonyms
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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