adsorption
\ad.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“adsorption” is uncommon French (frequency #65,661 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,661
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénétration superficielle d’un gaz ou d’un liquide dans un solide ou un liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adsorption · adsorption · French
adsorption · rank #65,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,661
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adda
Nearest frequency peer: adda (-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 « adsorption »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acculés
acculés
34,342 corpus weight
- adda
adda
34,341 corpus weight
- adsorption
adsorption
34,340 corpus weight
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
- aer
aer
34,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adsorption » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adsorption |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ad.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adsorption » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adsorption is uncommon French at frequency #65,661 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ad.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adsorption, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is adsorption, spelled A-D-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pénétration superficielle d’un gaz ou d’un liquide dans un solide ou un liquide.
- 2Fixation en surface d’un gaz sur un solide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adsorption appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'analyte se dépose par adsorption physique sur la surface de l'électrode plutôt que par électrodéposition.
On peut en conclure que les perméants hydrophiles utilisés ne donnent pas lieu à une adsorption sensible sur les structures musculaires (auquel cas R aurait une tendance à augmenter dans le domaine des concentrations faibles).
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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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