acide gras
\a.sid ɡʁa\
The verdict
“acide gras” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécule organique qui entre dans la composition des graisses animales et végétales et possède une longue chaîne carbonée, le plus souvent linéaire, terminée par une fonction acide carboxylique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acide-gras · acide gras · French
acide gras · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 gras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sid ɡʁa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
acide gras is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sid ɡʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
acide gras has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acide gras, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -G-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Molécule organique qui entre dans la composition des graisses animales et végétales et possède une longue chaîne carbonée, le plus souvent linéaire, terminée par une fonction acide carboxylique.
- 2Tout acide carboxylique linéaire, indépendamment de la longueur de la chaîne carbonée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acide gras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les corps gras sont des éthers composés ou glycérides tertiaires formés par la glycérine et divers acides gras à teneur élevée en carbone. Les glycérides les plus répandus sont ceux des acides stéarique, palmitique et oléique.
Les corps gras naturels animaux ou végétaux sont des éthers de la glycérine avec certains acides appelés acides gras.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.