symbiote
\sɛ̃.bjɔt\
The verdict
“symbiote” is uncommon French (frequency #76,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme qui vit en symbiose avec un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-symbiote · symbiote · French
symbiote · rank #76,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,158
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supersoniques
Nearest frequency peer: supersoniques (-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 « symbiote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subtilisé
subtilisé
23,846 corpus weight
- sudo
sudo
23,845 corpus weight
- supersoniqu…
supersoniques
23,844 corpus weight
- symbiote
symbiote
23,843 corpus weight
- séquenceur
séquenceur
23,842 corpus weight
- tabassage
tabassage
23,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « symbiote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | symbiote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bjɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « symbiote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
symbiote is uncommon French at frequency #76,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.bjɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme qui vit en symbiose avec un autre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for symbiote, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is symbiote, spelled S-Y-M-B-I-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Organisme qui vit en symbiose avec un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how symbiote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le termite est un insecte censé se nourrir du bois, or il est incapable de digérer par lui-même la cellulose. Il doit pour cela faire appel à son symbiote, le Trichonympha qui lui est capable de digérer la cellulose.
Synonyms
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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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