additif alimentaire
\a.di.ti.fa.li.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“additif alimentaire” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Produit naturel ou synthétisé ajouté en petite quantité dans un but technologique aux denrées alimentaires commerciales (notamment aliments industriels) destinés à l’alimentation humaine ou animale...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | additif alimentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.di.ti.fa.li.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “additif alimentaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for additif alimentaire is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.di.ti.fa.li.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\. 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: "Produit naturel ou synthétisé ajouté en petite quantité dans un but technologique aux denrées alimentaires commerciales (notamment aliments industriels) destinés à l’alimentation humaine ou animale...".
No misspelling variants are generated for additif alimentaire 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 additif alimentaire, spelled A-D-D-I-T-I-F- -A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produit naturel ou synthétisé ajouté en petite quantité dans un but technologique aux denrées alimentaires commerciales (notamment aliments industriels) destinés à l’alimentation humaine ou animale, en vue de modifier le goût ou le parfum, la texture ou l’aspect, de prolonger la conservation, faciliter la transformation, etc.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-D-D-I-T-I-F- -A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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