strabisme
\stʁa.bism\
The verdict
“strabisme” is uncommon French (frequency #51,759 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,759
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition anormale des yeux, qui ne leur permet pas d’être dirigés en même temps sur le même objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strabisme · strabisme · French
strabisme · rank #51,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,759
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stora
Nearest frequency peer: stora (-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 « strabisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spiral
spiral
48,246 corpus weight
- squatteurs
squatteurs
48,245 corpus weight
- stora
stora
48,243 corpus weight
- strabisme
strabisme
48,242 corpus weight
- streets
streets
48,241 corpus weight
- stretch
stretch
48,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strabisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strabisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁa.bism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « strabisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
strabisme is uncommon French at frequency #51,759 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁa.bism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Disposition anormale des yeux, qui ne leur permet pas d’être dirigés en même temps sur le même objet.".
Zero misspellings are on record for strabisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is strabisme, spelled S-T-R-A-B-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition anormale des yeux, qui ne leur permet pas d’être dirigés en même temps sur le même objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strabisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La connexion qui existe entre la myopie binoculaire et le strabisme divergent n'a pas non plus passé inaperçue autrefois.
Émile Digard est affligé d’un léger strabisme, qu’il rend plus sensible en levant fréquemment les yeux au ciel.
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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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