tomographie
\tɔ.mo.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“tomographie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,434 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,434
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Technique d’imagerie, utilisée en particulier dans l’imagerie médicale, en géophysique et en astrophysique, qui permet de reconstruire le volume d’un objet à partir d’une série de mesures effectuée...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.mo.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomographie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tomographie is uncommon French at frequency #60,434 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.mo.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique d’imagerie, utilisée en particulier dans l’imagerie médicale, en géophysique et en astrophysique, qui permet de reconstruire le volume d’un objet à partir d’une série de mesures effectuée...".
No misspelling variants are generated for tomographie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tomographie, spelled T-O-M-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Technique d’imagerie, utilisée en particulier dans l’imagerie médicale, en géophysique et en astrophysique, qui permet de reconstruire le volume d’un objet à partir d’une série de mesures effectuées par tranche depuis l’extérieur de cet objet.
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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Using “tomographie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔ.mo.ɡʁa.fi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.