stéthoscope
\ste.tɔs.kɔp\
The verdict
“stéthoscope” is uncommon French (frequency #65,545 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,545
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de cornet acoustique pour l’auscultation médicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stethoscope · stéthoscope · French
stéthoscope · rank #65,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,545
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stimulés
Nearest frequency peer: stimulés (-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 « stéthoscope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stampa
stampa
34,459 corpus weight
- staphylocoq…
staphylocoque
34,458 corpus weight
- stimulés
stimulés
34,457 corpus weight
- stéthoscope
stéthoscope
34,456 corpus weight
- substitutio…
substitutions
34,455 corpus weight
- summa
summa
34,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stéthoscope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stéthoscope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ste.tɔs.kɔp\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stéthoscope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stéthoscope is uncommon French at frequency #65,545 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ste.tɔs.kɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de cornet acoustique pour l’auscultation médicale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stéthoscope in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stéthoscope, spelled S-T-É-T-H-O-S-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de cornet acoustique pour l’auscultation médicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stéthoscope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On détermine assez facilement un bruit de souffle dans les artères crurales en les comprimant un peu avec le bord du stéthoscope.
Je vois son tablier, que dépasse le manche du stéthoscope, sa vareuse, le gros crayon bleu dont il dessinait sur les draps les courbes d`une fièvre ou la cadence d`un rythme cardiaque, l'appareil à l’aide duquel il enregistrait la mouvement du pouls, la tension artérielle.
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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