aldéhyde
\al.de.id\
The verdict
“aldéhyde” is uncommon French (frequency #77,208 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,208
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé organique dont l’un des atomes de carbone primaire porte un groupement carbonyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aldehyde · aldéhyde · French
aldéhyde · rank #77,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,208
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcootest
Nearest frequency peer: alcootest (-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 « aldéhyde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- airelles
airelles
22,796 corpus weight
- alcaloïde
alcaloïde
22,795 corpus weight
- alcootest
alcootest
22,794 corpus weight
- aldéhyde
aldéhyde
22,793 corpus weight
- alet
alet
22,792 corpus weight
- alluviale
alluviale
22,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aldéhyde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aldéhyde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.de.id\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aldéhyde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aldéhyde is uncommon French at frequency #77,208 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.de.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé organique dont l’un des atomes de carbone primaire porte un groupement carbonyle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aldéhyde, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aldéhyde, spelled A-L-D-É-H-Y-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composé organique dont l’un des atomes de carbone primaire porte un groupement carbonyle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aldéhyde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’aldéhyde éthylique CH₃.CHO correspond un dérivé trichloré, CCl₃.CHO, le chloral, très employé sous forme d’hydrate.
L’essence d’amandes amères contient de l’acide prussique qui est toxique et qu’on enlève, et de l’aldéhyde benzoïque presque pure.
This word in other languages
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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