spermatozoïde
\spɛʁ.ma.tɔ.zɔ.id\
The verdict
“spermatozoïde” is uncommon French (frequency #53,001 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule haploïde sexuelle produite par le mâle contenant la moitié des chromosomes du futur embryon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spermatozoide · spermatozoïde · French
spermatozoïde · rank #53,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,001
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spengler
Nearest frequency peer: Spengler (-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 « spermatozoïde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spawn
spawn
47,003 corpus weight
- spectroscop…
spectroscopie
47,002 corpus weight
- Spengler
Spengler
47,001 corpus weight
- spermatozoï…
spermatozoïde
47,000 corpus weight
- started
started
46,999 corpus weight
- stellaires
stellaires
46,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spermatozoïde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spermatozoïde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɛʁ.ma.tɔ.zɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spermatozoïde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spermatozoïde is uncommon French at frequency #53,001 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɛʁ.ma.tɔ.zɔ.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cellule haploïde sexuelle produite par le mâle contenant la moitié des chromosomes du futur embryon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spermatozoïde, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spermatozoïde, spelled S-P-E-R-M-A-T-O-Z-O-Ï-D-E.
Definition
- 1Cellule haploïde sexuelle produite par le mâle contenant la moitié des chromosomes du futur embryon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spermatozoïde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La multitude fusait en tous sens, évoquant, vue des toits, soit un grouillement mou d’amibes, soit tout un charleston de spermatozoïdes pressés de faire mouche.
C’est d’ailleurs la raison pour laquelle il est tout à fait possible de micro-injecter un spermatozoïde provenant aussi bien du testicule où il aura été prélevé chirurgicalement que de l’éjaculat.
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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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