thymus

/\ti.mys\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,791

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

thymus is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced \ti.mys\.

Key facts for thymus
PropertyValue
Headwordthymus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ti.mys\
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,791
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of thymus in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for thymus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.mys\. Corpus data places it at rank #72,791 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for thymus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is thymus, spelled T-H-Y-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 pendant l’enfance, son volume décroît après la deuxième année de la vie.
  2. 2
    Ris de veau ou d’agneau.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #72,791 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "thymus"?
"thymus" is spelled T-H-Y-M-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ti.mys\.
What does "thymus" mean?
As a noun, "thymus" means: 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 ...
How do you pronounce "thymus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "thymus" is \ti.mys\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "thymus" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.