acide gras

/\a.sid ɡʁa\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

acide gras is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \a.sid ɡʁa\.

Key facts for acide gras
PropertyValue
Headwordacide gras
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sid ɡʁa\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

acide gras is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for acide gras is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sid ɡʁa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for acide gras in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is acide gras, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -G-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Tout acide carboxylique linéaire, indépendamment de la longueur de la chaîne carbonée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acide gras"?
"acide gras" is spelled A-C-I-D-E- -G-R-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sid ɡʁa\.
What does "acide gras" mean?
As a noun, "acide gras" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "acide gras"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acide gras" is \a.sid ɡʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acide gras" come from?
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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.