virologie
\vi.ʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“virologie” is uncommon French (frequency #68,733 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,733
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude des virus et de leurs propriétés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virologie · virologie · French
virologie · rank #68,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,733
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH violonistes
Nearest frequency peer: violonistes (-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 « virologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villar
Villar
31,271 corpus weight
- Villetaneuse
Villetaneuse
31,270 corpus weight
- violonistes
violonistes
31,269 corpus weight
- virologie
virologie
31,268 corpus weight
- vouait
vouait
31,267 corpus weight
- voyagea
voyagea
31,266 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virologie is uncommon French at frequency #68,733 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.ʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude des virus et de leurs propriétés.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for virologie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is virologie, spelled V-I-R-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude des virus et de leurs propriétés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how virologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme l’explique Benoit Barbeau, professeur au Département de sciences biologiques de l’UQAM et expert en virologie, ces vaccins, composés d’anticorps, visent la protéine de surface du virus.
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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