thalamus
\ta.la.mys\
The verdict
“thalamus” is uncommon French (frequency #89,243 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,243
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Structure paire d'origine diencéphalique située de part et d'autre du troisième ventricule dont il constitue les parois latérales. Il sert à filtrer les informations qui arrivent au cortex cérébral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thalamus · thalamus · French
thalamus · rank #89,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,243
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terro
Nearest frequency peer: terro (-2 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 « thalamus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Taxon
Taxon
10,763 corpus weight
- tendresses
tendresses
10,761 corpus weight
- terro
terro
10,760 corpus weight
- thalamus
thalamus
10,758 corpus weight
- thomiste
thomiste
10,755 corpus weight
- thuya
thuya
10,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thalamus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thalamus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.la.mys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thalamus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thalamus is uncommon French at frequency #89,243 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.la.mys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
thalamus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 thalamus, spelled T-H-A-L-A-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Structure paire d'origine diencéphalique située de part et d'autre du troisième ventricule dont il constitue les parois latérales. Il sert à filtrer les informations qui arrivent au cortex cérébral.
- 2Réceptacle floral de forme bombée que l'on retrouve parfois chez certaines plantes à fleurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thalamus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au sein et autour des deux thalamus se rencontrent des cloisons fibreuses formées de fibres myélinisées, appelées lames médullaires.
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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