vivisection
\vi.vi.sɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“vivisection” is uncommon French (frequency #84,425 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,425
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dissection opérée sur un animal vivant, à titre d’expérience scientifique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivisection · vivisection · French
vivisection · rank #84,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,425
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH violentée
Nearest frequency peer: violentée (-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 « vivisection »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vichyste
vichyste
15,579 corpus weight
- violacée
violacée
15,578 corpus weight
- violentée
violentée
15,577 corpus weight
- vivisection
vivisection
15,576 corpus weight
- votives
votives
15,574 corpus weight
- walkyrie
walkyrie
15,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vivisection » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivisection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.vi.sɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vivisection » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vivisection is uncommon French at frequency #84,425 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.vi.sɛk.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dissection opérée sur un animal vivant, à titre d’expérience scientifique.".
vivisection has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vivisection, spelled V-I-V-I-S-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dissection opérée sur un animal vivant, à titre d’expérience scientifique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vivisection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut plutôt attendre le 17ᵉ siècle pour assister à la montée en popularité des vivisections, lesquelles prennent leur essor sous l'impulsion des travaux de Harvey sur la circulation du sang et la théorie des animaux-machines de René Descartes.
Ce que nous allons faire est délicat ; c’est presque de la vivisection ; nous allons traiter les vivants comme d’ordinaire on traite les morts. Nous y mettrons la froideur, l’impartialité la plus absolue.
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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