adénosine

\a.de.nɔ.zin\

/\a.de.nɔ.zin\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adénosine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adénosine
PropertyValue
Headwordadénosine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.de.nɔ.zin\
Letters9
Frequency rank#91,351
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « adénosine » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).adénosinetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « adventice » (#91,350), « affairés » (#91,352), « adoreront » (#91,348). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adénosine » est au #91,351. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nucléoside formé d'un cycle ribose attaché à la base azotée adénine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how adénosine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adénosine"?
"adénosine" is spelled A-D-É-N-O-S-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.de.nɔ.zin\.
What does "adénosine" mean?
As a noun, "adénosine" means: Nucléoside formé d'un cycle ribose attaché à la base azotée adénine.
How do you pronounce "adénosine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adénosine" is \a.de.nɔ.zin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adénosine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list