sternalgie
The verdict
“sternalgie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angine de poitrine, ainsi appelée à cause de la douleur violente que le malade éprouve sous le sternum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sternalgie · sternalgie · French
sternalgie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sternalgie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sternalgie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sternalgie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Angine de poitrine, ainsi appelée à cause de la douleur violente que le malade éprouve sous le sternum.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sternalgie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sternalgie, spelled S-T-E-R-N-A-L-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Angine de poitrine, ainsi appelée à cause de la douleur violente que le malade éprouve sous le sternum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sternalgie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sternalgie et la névralgie intercostale sont des douleurs d'accès, sévissant, la première, dans le plexus cardiaque, la seconde, dans les parois du thorax … Les accès de sternalgie sont rarement précédés de malaise, d'inquiétude vague, de pandiculations, d'obnubilation des sens; l'instantanéité de l'invasion est un de leurs caractères diagnostiques pri…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.