acétylcholine
\a.se.til.kɔ.lin\
The verdict
“acétylcholine” is uncommon French (frequency #76,279 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,279
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ester de l’acide acétique et de la choline, et neurotransmetteur intervenant dans les mécanismes de la mémoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acetylcholine · acétylcholine · French
acétylcholine · rank #76,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,279
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 424,905
- PHOTO-FINISH acquière
Nearest frequency peer: acquière (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “acétylcholine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- achoura
achoura
23,724 corpus weight
- acquière
acquière
23,723 corpus weight
- acétylcholi…
acétylcholine
23,722 corpus weight
- Adami
Adami
23,721 corpus weight
- adaptables
adaptables
23,720 corpus weight
- adaptes
adaptes
23,719 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “acétylcholine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acétylcholine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.se.til.kɔ.lin\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acétylcholine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
acétylcholine is uncommon French at frequency #76,279 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.se.til.kɔ.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ester de l’acide acétique et de la choline, et neurotransmetteur intervenant dans les mécanismes de la mémoire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for acétylcholine in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acétylcholine, spelled A-C-É-T-Y-L-C-H-O-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ester de l’acide acétique et de la choline, et neurotransmetteur intervenant dans les mécanismes de la mémoire.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acétylcholine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.