anhydride
\a.ni.dʁid\
The verdict
“anhydride” is uncommon French (frequency #77,222 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,222
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé chimique qui a perdu une ou plusieurs molécules d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anhydride · anhydride · French
anhydride · rank #77,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,222
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annonciateurs
Nearest frequency peer: annonciateurs (+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 « anhydride »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- analyst
analyst
22,783 corpus weight
- Anastasie
Anastasie
22,782 corpus weight
- anhydride
anhydride
22,779 corpus weight
- annonciateu…
annonciateurs
22,778 corpus weight
- annoter
annoter
22,777 corpus weight
- antibiothér…
antibiothérapie
22,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anhydride » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anhydride |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.dʁid\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anhydride » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anhydride is uncommon French at frequency #77,222 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.dʁid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé chimique qui a perdu une ou plusieurs molécules d’eau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for anhydride in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is anhydride, spelled A-N-H-Y-D-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique qui a perdu une ou plusieurs molécules d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anhydride appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’on sulfone le camphre par l’acide sulfurique en présence d’anhydride acétique, on obtient l’acide camphosulfonique-10 ou acide de Reychler qui est utilisé en thérapeutique (acide β-camphosulfonique).
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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