alcaloïdes
\al.ka.lɔ.id\
The verdict
“alcaloïdes” is uncommon French (frequency #56,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alcaloïde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcaloides · alcaloïdes · French
alcaloïdes · rank #56,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,398
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alarmants
Nearest frequency peer: alarmants (-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 « alcaloïdes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agaçante
agaçante
43,606 corpus weight
- aggravantes
aggravantes
43,605 corpus weight
- alarmants
alarmants
43,604 corpus weight
- alcaloïdes
alcaloïdes
43,603 corpus weight
- alcohol
alcohol
43,602 corpus weight
- alexandrins
alexandrins
43,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcaloïdes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcaloïdes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ka.lɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcaloïdes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcaloïdes is uncommon French at frequency #56,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ka.lɔ.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de alcaloïde.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcaloïdes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alcaloïdes, spelled A-L-C-A-L-O-Ï-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de alcaloïde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcaloïdes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner les alcalins à un diabétique, c’est accélérer sa mort. Il faut, au contraire, le dédiabétiser par la strychnine et empêcher la fièvre de consomption par les alcaloïdes défervescents.
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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