alcaline
\al.ka.lin\
The verdict
“alcaline” is uncommon French (frequency #51,865 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,865
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de alcalin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcaline · alcaline · French
alcaline · rank #51,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,865
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alambic
Nearest frequency peer: alambic (-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 « alcaline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ailée
ailée
48,139 corpus weight
- ajournée
ajournée
48,138 corpus weight
- alambic
alambic
48,137 corpus weight
- alcaline
alcaline
48,136 corpus weight
- Algérois
Algérois
48,135 corpus weight
- aloe
aloe
48,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcaline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcaline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.ka.lin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcaline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcaline is uncommon French at frequency #51,865 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.ka.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de alcalin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alcaline in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 alcaline, spelled A-L-C-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de alcalin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcaline 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.
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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