alcali
\al.ka.li\
The verdict
“alcali” is uncommon French (frequency #97,643 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,643
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cendre de certaines plantes du milieu littoral à partir de laquelle on produisait la soude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcali · alcali · French
alcali · rank #97,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,643
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajo
Nearest frequency peer: ajo (-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 « alcali »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- airelle
airelle
2,362 corpus weight
- Airparif
Airparif
2,361 corpus weight
- ajo
ajo
2,359 corpus weight
- alcali
alcali
2,358 corpus weight
- alpagas
alpagas
2,356 corpus weight
- altesses
altesses
2,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcali » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ka.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcali » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcali is uncommon French at frequency #97,643 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ka.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for alcali in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alcali, spelled A-L-C-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Cendre de certaines plantes du milieu littoral à partir de laquelle on produisait la soude.
- 2Soude, carbonate de sodium.
- 3Ammoniaque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcali appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les savons sont généralement caustiques et renferment un excès d'alcali libre. On admet qu’ils agissent par leur alcali pour saponifier les corps gras […]
Le savon de toilette ne doit pas contenir d’alcali libre […]
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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