umbilical cord
\ʌmˈbɪl.ə.kəl ˌkɔɹd\
The verdict
“umbilical cord” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cordon ombilical.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umbilical cord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʌmˈbɪl.ə.kəl ˌkɔɹd\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umbilical cord” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for umbilical cord is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʌmˈbɪl.ə.kəl ˌkɔɹd\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cordon ombilical.".
No misspelling variants are generated for umbilical cord in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 umbilical cord, spelled U-M-B-I-L-I-C-A-L- -C-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cordon ombilical.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is U-M-B-I-L-I-C-A-L- -C-O-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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