allergène
\al.lɛʁ.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“allergène” is uncommon French (frequency #68,028 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,028
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut causer une allergie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allergene · allergène · French
allergène · rank #68,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,028
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alii
Nearest frequency peer: alii (-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 « allergène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alessio
Alessio
31,976 corpus weight
- algonquin
algonquin
31,975 corpus weight
- alii
alii
31,974 corpus weight
- allergène
allergène
31,973 corpus weight
- amani
amani
31,972 corpus weight
- Amaya
Amaya
31,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allergène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allergène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.lɛʁ.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allergène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allergène is uncommon French at frequency #68,028 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.lɛʁ.ʒɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut causer une allergie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for allergène in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is allergène, spelled A-L-L-E-R-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut causer une allergie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allergène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ne font pas l'objet d'un étiquetage obligatoire compte tenu de leur caractère passager dans la denrée alimentaire et de l'absence d'effet dans le produit fini, sauf si la substance est issue d'un produit allergène figurant dans la liste établie.
Des conforts modernes comme le chauffage central, l’air conditionné et l’aspirateur font circuler de nombreuses particules allergènes nocives (naturelles et synthétiques), particulièrement des acariens, des moisissures, des champignons, des virus et des bactéries.
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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