alcalines
\al.ka.lin\
The verdict
“alcalines” is uncommon French (frequency #72,052 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,052
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de alcalin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcalines · alcalines · French
alcalines · rank #72,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,052
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alchemist
Nearest frequency peer: alchemist (+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 « alcalines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- afférente
afférente
27,953 corpus weight
- agha
agha
27,952 corpus weight
- Akim
Akim
27,951 corpus weight
- alcalines
alcalines
27,949 corpus weight
- alchemist
alchemist
27,948 corpus weight
- alimentaient
alimentaient
27,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcalines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcalines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.ka.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcalines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcalines is uncommon French at frequency #72,052 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.ka.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de alcalin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcalines, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alcalines, spelled A-L-C-A-L-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de alcalin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcalines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après Seegen il fait diminuer la proportion des matières azotées dans l’urine ; comme altérant, ce ne serait donc pas sur les matières albuminoïdes qu’il agirait, mais sur les principes hydro-carbonés, d’où son succès dans l’obésité, il désengraisse sans cachexier, contrairement aux eaux alcalines.
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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