vasectomie
\va.zɛk.tɔ.mi\
The verdict
“vasectomie” is uncommon French (frequency #50,569 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,569
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Section des canaux déférents ayant pour but de rendre stérile un homme, les spermatozoïdes ne pouvant plus être transportés des testicules à l'urètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vasectomie · vasectomie · French
vasectomie · rank #50,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,569
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vallières
Nearest frequency peer: Vallières (-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 « vasectomie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unknown
unknown
49,435 corpus weight
- Vallières
Vallières
49,433 corpus weight
- vasectomie
vasectomie
49,432 corpus weight
- vaseux
vaseux
49,431 corpus weight
- vaudront
vaudront
49,430 corpus weight
- ventouses
ventouses
49,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vasectomie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vasectomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.zɛk.tɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vasectomie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vasectomie is uncommon French at frequency #50,569 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.zɛk.tɔ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Section des canaux déférents ayant pour but de rendre stérile un homme, les spermatozoïdes ne pouvant plus être transportés des testicules à l'urètre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vasectomie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vasectomie, spelled V-A-S-E-C-T-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Section des canaux déférents ayant pour but de rendre stérile un homme, les spermatozoïdes ne pouvant plus être transportés des testicules à l'urètre.
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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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