alcène
\al.sɛn\
The verdict
“alcène” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydrocarbure insaturé comprenant au moins une double liaison covalente entre deux atomes de carbone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcene · alcène · French
alcène · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
alcène is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hydrocarbure insaturé comprenant au moins une double liaison covalente entre deux atomes de carbone.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcène, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alcène, spelled A-L-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hydrocarbure insaturé comprenant au moins une double liaison covalente entre deux atomes de carbone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque la liaison bore-hydrogène s’approche de l’alcène, les interactions entre les substituants du borane et ceux de l’alcène deviennent importantes.
En principe, la thymine peut se tautomériser et se présenter également sous la forme d’énol (un alcène avec une fonction alcool), en plus de la forme plus courante de lactame.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.