acide carbonique
\a.sid kaʁ.bɔ.nik\
The verdict
“acide carbonique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acide faible, très instable, de formule brute H₂CO₃, se formant par réaction entre l’eau et le dioxyde de carbone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acide-carbonique · acide carbonique · French
acide carbonique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide carbonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sid kaʁ.bɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acide carbonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acide carbonique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sid kaʁ.bɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acide faible, très instable, de formule brute H₂CO₃, se formant par réaction entre l’eau et le dioxyde de carbone.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acide carbonique, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acide carbonique, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -C-A-R-B-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Acide faible, très instable, de formule brute H₂CO₃, se formant par réaction entre l’eau et le dioxyde de carbone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acide carbonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1833, Mlle Fischer, qui travaillait parfois la nuit quand elle avait beaucoup d'ouvrage, sentit, vers une heure du matin, une odeur d’acide carbonique, et entendit les plaintes d’un mourant.
La chaux ne se rencontre jamais à l'état libre dans la nature. Elle est le plus souvent combinée avec l’acide carbonique, et forme un corps que les chimistes appellent carbonate de chaux et qui est le principal composant des pierres calcaires.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.