scutellum
\sky.tɛ.lɔm\
The verdict
“scutellum” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie dorsale de la carapace située à la jonction des élytres chez les coléoptères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scutellum · scutellum · French
scutellum · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scutellum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sky.tɛ.lɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scutellum” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scutellum is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sky.tɛ.lɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
scutellum has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 scutellum, spelled S-C-U-T-E-L-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1Partie dorsale de la carapace située à la jonction des élytres chez les coléoptères.
- 2Cotylédon élargi et en position latérale des graminées.
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