streptocoque
\stʁɛp.tɔ.kɔk\
The verdict
“streptocoque” is uncommon French (frequency #82,494 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,494
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bacille pathogène, commensal ou saprophyte, ubiquitaire. → voir Streptococcus
Corpus desk
Index FR-streptocoque · streptocoque · French
streptocoque · rank #82,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,494
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stratigraphiq…
Nearest frequency peer: stratigraphiques (-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 « streptocoque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stenay
Stenay
17,510 corpus weight
- Stijn
Stijn
17,509 corpus weight
- stratigraph…
stratigraphiques
17,508 corpus weight
- streptocoque
streptocoque
17,507 corpus weight
- striés
striés
17,506 corpus weight
- sténographie
sténographie
17,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « streptocoque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | streptocoque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁɛp.tɔ.kɔk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « streptocoque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
streptocoque is uncommon French at frequency #82,494 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁɛp.tɔ.kɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bacille pathogène, commensal ou saprophyte, ubiquitaire. → voir Streptococcus".
Zero misspellings are on record for streptocoque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is streptocoque, spelled S-T-R-E-P-T-O-C-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Bacille pathogène, commensal ou saprophyte, ubiquitaire. → voir Streptococcus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how streptocoque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Breese, en 1969, montre l'absence de portage de streptocoque A chez 100 enfants traités par la lincomycine, alors que 12/102 enfants traités par pénicilline en sont porteurs.
Le streptocoque B est un cocci Gram positif aéro-anaérobie, souvent retrouvé au niveau de l'intestin, du vagin, du rhino-pharynx et des glandes mammaires.
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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