actine
\ak.tin\
The verdict
“actine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protéine biglobulaire participant aux mouvements des cellules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-actine · actine · French
actine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | actine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.tin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « actine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
actine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ak.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Protéine biglobulaire participant aux mouvements des cellules.".
actine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is actine, spelled A-C-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Protéine biglobulaire participant aux mouvements des cellules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how actine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plus abondante des protéines se fixant à l’actine est la thymosine, une petite protéine de 5 kDa, qui s’avère la principale responsable de la séquestration des protomères d’actine et, ce faisant, de leur assemblage en filament.
La vitesse de raccourcissement du muscle est déterminée par la vitesse des cycles des ponts d’actine - myosine.
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.