sphincter
\sfɛ̃k.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“sphincter” is uncommon French (frequency #51,754 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,754
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muscle annulaire qui a la faculté de se contracter et qui sert à rétrécir ou à fermer certains orifices naturels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sphincter · sphincter · French
sphincter · rank #51,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,754
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spacieuses
Nearest frequency peer: spacieuses (-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 « sphincter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souhaitées
souhaitées
48,250 corpus weight
- soulevait
soulevait
48,249 corpus weight
- spacieuses
spacieuses
48,248 corpus weight
- sphincter
sphincter
48,247 corpus weight
- spiral
spiral
48,246 corpus weight
- squatteurs
squatteurs
48,245 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sphincter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sphincter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sfɛ̃k.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sphincter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sphincter is uncommon French at frequency #51,754 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sfɛ̃k.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sphincter has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sphincter, spelled S-P-H-I-N-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Muscle annulaire qui a la faculté de se contracter et qui sert à rétrécir ou à fermer certains orifices naturels.
- 2Anus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sphincter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sphincters de l’anus.
Le sphincter de la vessie.
Synonyms
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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