ADN
\a.de.ɛn\
The verdict
“ADN” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,209) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,209
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécule composée de nucléotides, porteuse de l'information génétique chez la plupart des organismes, généralement sous forme de double brin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adn · ADN · French
ADN · rank #5,209 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,209
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH étonne
Nearest frequency peer: étonne (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ADN »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- épaules
épaules
94,795 corpus weight
- étendue
étendue
94,794 corpus weight
- étonne
étonne
94,793 corpus weight
- ADN
ADN
94,792 corpus weight
- Aix
Aix
94,791 corpus weight
- ambassade
ambassade
94,790 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ADN » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ADN |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.de.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ADN »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ADN is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.de.ɛn\. Frequency #5,209 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ADN has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ADN, spelled A-D-N.
Definition
- 1Molécule composée de nucléotides, porteuse de l'information génétique chez la plupart des organismes, généralement sous forme de double brin.
- 2Caractéristiques essentielles, indissociables de l'identité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ADN appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les composants chimiques de l’ADN sont un groupement phosphate ; un sucre en C5, le désoxyribose qui donne son nom à l’ADN ; et 4 bases azotées : adénine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) et thymine (T).
En 1953, Watson, Crick et Wilkins ont proposé la structure en double hélice de l’ADN. La molécule d’ADN est donc organisée en 2 chaînes de nucléotides enroulées en double hélice.
Synonyms
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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