adénosine
\a.de.nɔ.zin\
The verdict
“adénosine” is uncommon French (frequency #91,351 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,351
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nucléoside formé d'un cycle ribose attaché à la base azotée adénine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adenosine · adénosine · French
adénosine · rank #91,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adventice
Nearest frequency peer: adventice (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « adénosine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adoptants
adoptants
8,654 corpus weight
- adoreront
adoreront
8,653 corpus weight
- adventice
adventice
8,651 corpus weight
- adénosine
adénosine
8,650 corpus weight
- affairés
affairés
8,649 corpus weight
- affirmèrent
affirmèrent
8,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adénosine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adénosine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.de.nɔ.zin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adénosine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adénosine is uncommon French at frequency #91,351 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.de.nɔ.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nucléoside formé d'un cycle ribose attaché à la base azotée adénine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adénosine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adénosine, spelled A-D-É-N-O-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nucléoside formé d'un cycle ribose attaché à la base azotée adénine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adénosine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces hélices, insérées dans l’épaisseur de la membrane des cellules, y dessinent les contours d’une sorte de guichet dans lequel l’adénosine va s’engager pour communiquer une information à l’intérieur de la cellule qui les porte.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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