acide phosphorique
\a.sid fɔs.fɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“acide phosphorique” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oxacide, à base de phosphore, de formule H₃PO₄.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide phosphorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sid fɔs.fɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acide phosphorique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acide phosphorique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sid fɔs.fɔ.ʁik\. 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: "Oxacide, à base de phosphore, de formule H₃PO₄.".
No misspelling variants are generated for acide phosphorique 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 phosphorique, spelled A-C-I-D-E- -P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oxacide, à base de phosphore, de formule H₃PO₄.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-C-I-D-E- -P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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