angiotensine

\ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\

/\ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\/ noun

The verdict

“angiotensine” is uncommon French (frequency #85,461 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,461
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peptide impliqué dans la maintenance du volume et de la tension artérielle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-angiotensine · angiotensine · French

angiotensine · rank #85,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,461
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amuserait

Nearest frequency peer: amuserait (-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 « angiotensine »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « angiotensine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for angiotensine
PropertyValue
Headwordangiotensine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\
Letters12
Frequency rank#85,461
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « angiotensine » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.angiotensinetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « amuserait » (#85,460), « anicroche » (#85,462), « Amilly » (#85,459). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « angiotensine » est au #85,461. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

angiotensine is uncommon French at frequency #85,461 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peptide impliqué dans la maintenance du volume et de la tension artérielle.".

angiotensine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is angiotensine, spelled A-N-G-I-O-T-E-N-S-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peptide impliqué dans la maintenance du volume et de la tension artérielle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how angiotensine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une variante particulière du gène DCP, qui code pour l’enzyme de conversion de l’angiotensine, peut faire la différence entre quelqu’un qui peinerait à l’effort physique et un athlète de haut niveau dans des sports d’endurance.
  2. La sécrétion de l’aldostérone est sous la dépendance du système rénine-angiotensine.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "angiotensine"?
"angiotensine" is spelled A-N-G-I-O-T-E-N-S-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\.
What does "angiotensine" mean?
As a noun, "angiotensine" means: Peptide impliqué dans la maintenance du volume et de la tension artérielle.
How do you pronounce "angiotensine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angiotensine" is \ɑ̃.ʒjɔ.tɑ̃.sin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "angiotensine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list