alcalin
\al.ka.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“alcalin” is uncommon French (frequency #61,289 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,289
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux alcalis, aux métaux alcalins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcalin · alcalin · French
alcalin · rank #61,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,289
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AIDS
Nearest frequency peer: AIDS (-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 « alcalin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agoniser
agoniser
38,715 corpus weight
- agrémentés
agrémentés
38,714 corpus weight
- AIDS
AIDS
38,713 corpus weight
- alcalin
alcalin
38,712 corpus weight
- alevins
alevins
38,711 corpus weight
- alton
alton
38,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcalin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcalin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.ka.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcalin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcalin is uncommon French at frequency #61,289 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.ka.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcalin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alcalin, spelled A-L-C-A-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux alcalis, aux métaux alcalins.
- 2Qualifie un accumulateur, une pile dont l’électrolyte est alcalin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcalin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enzymes utilisées dans le conjugué sont principalement la HRP (horse radish peroxidase) pour une révélation chimioluminescente ou la PAL (phosphatase alcaline) pour une révélation colorimétrique.
L’actinobacille préfère donc de beaucoup les milieux légèrement alcalins et redoute les milieux acides.
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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