thymus
\ti.mys\
The verdict
“thymus” is uncommon French (frequency #72,791 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,791
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe lymphoïde situé dans le médiastin, entre le sternum et la trachée, qui sert de lieu de maturation aux lymphocytes T et joue un rôle dans la protection contre l’auto-immunité. Très développé ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-thymus · thymus · French
thymus · rank #72,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,791
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH threat
Nearest frequency peer: threat (-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 « thymus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- temer
temer
27,214 corpus weight
- terrer
terrer
27,213 corpus weight
- thief
thief
27,212 corpus weight
- threat
threat
27,211 corpus weight
- thymus
thymus
27,210 corpus weight
- théâtraux
théâtraux
27,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « thymus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thymus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.mys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thymus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thymus is uncommon French at frequency #72,791 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.mys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for thymus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is thymus, spelled T-H-Y-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Organe lymphoïde situé dans le médiastin, entre le sternum et la trachée, qui sert de lieu de maturation aux lymphocytes T et joue un rôle dans la protection contre l’auto-immunité. Très développé pendant l’enfance, son volume décroît après la deuxième année de la vie.
- 2Ris de veau ou d’agneau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thymus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a rencontré […] des thymus anormaux par leur persistance et leur volume chez des tuberculeux et des syphilitiques […]
Le thymus, qui est formé chez le nouveau-né et le jeune enfant de deux lobes aplatis débordant en haut du sternum, s’atrophie avec la progression de l’âge […]
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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