spectroscopie
\spɛk.tʁɔs.kɔ.pi\
The verdict
“spectroscopie” is uncommon French (frequency #52,999 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,999
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Analyse du spectre de la lumière obtenu à l'aide d'un composant dispersif (prisme ou réseau de diffraction).
Corpus desk
Index FR-spectroscopie · spectroscopie · French
spectroscopie · rank #52,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,999
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spawn
Nearest frequency peer: spawn (-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 « spectroscopie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spectroscopie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spectroscopie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɛk.tʁɔs.kɔ.pi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #52,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spectroscopie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spectroscopie is uncommon French at frequency #52,999 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɛk.tʁɔs.kɔ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Analyse du spectre de la lumière obtenu à l'aide d'un composant dispersif (prisme ou réseau de diffraction).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spectroscopie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is spectroscopie, spelled S-P-E-C-T-R-O-S-C-O-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Analyse du spectre de la lumière obtenu à l'aide d'un composant dispersif (prisme ou réseau de diffraction).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spectroscopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd'hui, la spectroscopie du plasma solaire coronal est étroitement tributaire de celles des plasmas de fusion, et réciproquement.
La spectroscopie stellaire.
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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