acide malique
The verdict
“acide malique” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Acide dicarboxylique alpha-hydroxylé de formule HOOC-CH₂-CHOH-COOH très répandu dans les plantes et naturellement présent dans les fruits comme les pommes, les poires ou le jus de raisin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide malique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sid ma.lik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acide malique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acide malique is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sid ma.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: "Acide dicarboxylique alpha-hydroxylé de formule HOOC-CH₂-CHOH-COOH très répandu dans les plantes et naturellement présent dans les fruits comme les pommes, les poires ou le jus de raisin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for acide malique 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 malique, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -M-A-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acide dicarboxylique alpha-hydroxylé de formule HOOC-CH₂-CHOH-COOH très répandu dans les plantes et naturellement présent dans les fruits comme les pommes, les poires ou le jus de raisin.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-C-I-D-E- -M-A-L-I-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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