alcohol
\al.kɔl\
The verdict
“alcohol” is uncommon French (frequency #56,399 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,399
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance quelconque réduite en parties extrêmement fines, en poudre impalpable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcohol · alcohol · French
alcohol · rank #56,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,399
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcaloïdes
Nearest frequency peer: alcaloïdes (-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 « alcohol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Aliénor
Aliénor
43,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcohol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcohol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcohol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcohol is uncommon French at frequency #56,399 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance quelconque réduite en parties extrêmement fines, en poudre impalpable.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alcohol, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alcohol, spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L.
Definition
- 1Substance quelconque réduite en parties extrêmement fines, en poudre impalpable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcohol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai décanté l’alcohol, j’ai fait sécher la chaux dans une étuve, et quand elle a été refroidie, j’ai versé dessus 24 grammes d’eau.
L'acide acétique se forme dans beaucoup de circonstances ; mais, considéré œnologiquement, il est toujours le produit d'une décomposition de l’alcohol.
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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