spore
\spɔʁ\
The verdict
“spore” is uncommon French (frequency #71,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,081
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule reproductrice des plantes cryptogames, produite par reproduction asexuée (i.e. mitose; phase de multiplication) suivie de méiose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spore · spore · French
spore · rank #71,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,081
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spires
Nearest frequency peer: spires (-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 « spore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Soyaux
Soyaux
28,924 corpus weight
- spires
spires
28,921 corpus weight
- spore
spore
28,920 corpus weight
- starling
starling
28,919 corpus weight
- STD
STD
28,918 corpus weight
- stoppant
stoppant
28,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spore is uncommon French at frequency #71,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for spore in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 spore, spelled S-P-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cellule reproductrice des plantes cryptogames, produite par reproduction asexuée (i.e. mitose; phase de multiplication) suivie de méiose.
- 2Forme de résistance de la bactérie qui redonne une forme végétative lors de la germination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces élatères sont formées par la plus extérieure des trois membranes enveloppantes de la spore, épaissie en une spirale dont les tours se séparent les uns des autres par suite de la résorption de la portion de la membrane qui leur est interposée (fig.60).
Les Fougères se disséminent par des spores. Les appareils sporifères forment des amas de formes variables à la surface inférieure des feuilles.
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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