sclérosé
\skle.ʁɔ.ze\
The verdict
“sclérosé” is uncommon French (frequency #94,260 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,260
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est atteint de sclérose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sclerose · sclérosé · French
sclérosé · rank #94,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,260
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schönberg
Nearest frequency peer: Schönberg (-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 « sclérosé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schloss
Schloss
5,744 corpus weight
- Schäfer
Schäfer
5,743 corpus weight
- Schönberg
Schönberg
5,742 corpus weight
- sclérosé
sclérosé
5,741 corpus weight
- secouées
secouées
5,740 corpus weight
- seg
seg
5,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sclérosé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sclérosé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \skle.ʁɔ.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sclérosé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sclérosé is uncommon French at frequency #94,260 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \skle.ʁɔ.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sclérosé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sclérosé, spelled S-C-L-É-R-O-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est atteint de sclérose.
- 2Figé dans une situation ou une attitude qui interdit toute évolution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sclérosé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est important car une langue sclérosée, incapable d'évoluer au rythme de la société, est appelée à mourir.
Pour se dégager de l'emprise d'une société conservatrice de plus en plus sclérosée, les francs-maçons préconisent l'instruction publique, seule voix qui puisse conduire à l'« émancipation » souhaitée.
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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