staphylocoque
\sta.fi.lɔ.kɔk\
The verdict
“staphylocoque” is uncommon French (frequency #65,543 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,543
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Microbe pouvant être pathogène, présentant au microscope l’aspect de grappes de raisin. → voir Staphylococcus
Corpus desk
Index FR-staphylocoque · staphylocoque · French
staphylocoque · rank #65,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,543
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stampa
Nearest frequency peer: stampa (-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 « staphylocoque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Spree
Spree
34,461 corpus weight
- stalactites
stalactites
34,460 corpus weight
- stampa
stampa
34,459 corpus weight
- staphylocoq…
staphylocoque
34,458 corpus weight
- stimulés
stimulés
34,457 corpus weight
- stéthoscope
stéthoscope
34,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « staphylocoque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | staphylocoque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.fi.lɔ.kɔk\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « staphylocoque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
staphylocoque is uncommon French at frequency #65,543 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sta.fi.lɔ.kɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Microbe pouvant être pathogène, présentant au microscope l’aspect de grappes de raisin. → voir Staphylococcus".
staphylocoque has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is staphylocoque, spelled S-T-A-P-H-Y-L-O-C-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Microbe pouvant être pathogène, présentant au microscope l’aspect de grappes de raisin. → voir Staphylococcus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staphylocoque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La culture du bouillon est ensemencée sur un tube de gélose; vingt-quatre heures après, on voit des traînées de coli, semées de colonies rondes de staphylocoques.
Soit les assauts du conquistador s'arrêtaient au seuil de la couche, soit, si la consommation avait lieu, se déchaînaient ensuite une succession interminable d'examens médicaux : sida, syphilis, gonocoque, staphylocoque et j'en passe...
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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