acide acétylsalicylique
\a.si.d‿a.se.til.sa.li.si.lik\
The verdict
“acide acétylsalicylique” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sel de l’acide salicylique, substance active communément utilisée dans des remèdes pour son action anti-inflammatoire, antipyrétique, analgésique, antiagrégant plaquettaire et antithrombotique par ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide acétylsalicylique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.si.d‿a.se.til.sa.li.si.lik\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acide acétylsalicylique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acide acétylsalicylique is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.si.d‿a.se.til.sa.li.si.lik\. 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: "Sel de l’acide salicylique, substance active communément utilisée dans des remèdes pour son action anti-inflammatoire, antipyrétique, analgésique, antiagrégant plaquettaire et antithrombotique par ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acide acétylsalicylique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acide acétylsalicylique, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -A-C-É-T-Y-L-S-A-L-I-C-Y-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Sel de l’acide salicylique, substance active communément utilisée dans des remèdes pour son action anti-inflammatoire, antipyrétique, analgésique, antiagrégant plaquettaire et antithrombotique par son action inhibitrice de la cyclo-oxygénase.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-C-I-D-E- -A-C-É-T-Y-L-S-A-L-I-C-Y-L-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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