spéléologue
\spe.le.ɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“spéléologue” is uncommon French (frequency #84,334 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,334
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scientifique qui étudie les cavités naturelles du sol, grottes, cavernes, sources, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-speleologue · spéléologue · French
spéléologue · rank #84,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,334
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sprites
Nearest frequency peer: sprites (-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 « spéléologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sovereign
sovereign
15,671 corpus weight
- sparring
sparring
15,670 corpus weight
- Spokane
Spokane
15,669 corpus weight
- sprites
sprites
15,668 corpus weight
- spéléologue
spéléologue
15,667 corpus weight
- STIC
STIC
15,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spéléologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spéléologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spe.le.ɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spéléologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spéléologue is uncommon French at frequency #84,334 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spe.le.ɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
spéléologue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spéléologue, spelled S-P-É-L-É-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Scientifique qui étudie les cavités naturelles du sol, grottes, cavernes, sources, etc.
- 2Plus généralement, tout adepte d'une pratique spéléologique, sportive, scientifique ou contemplative
Synonyms
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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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