aniline
\a.ni.lin\
The verdict
“aniline” is uncommon French (frequency #82,669 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,669
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé organique aromatique de formule brute C₆H₅NH₂, appartenant à la classe des amines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aniline · aniline · French
aniline · rank #82,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,669
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Anker
Nearest frequency peer: Anker (+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 « aniline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aménageur
aménageur
17,336 corpus weight
- andin
andin
17,335 corpus weight
- Andriy
Andriy
17,334 corpus weight
- aniline
aniline
17,332 corpus weight
- Anker
Anker
17,331 corpus weight
- annotées
annotées
17,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aniline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aniline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aniline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aniline is uncommon French at frequency #82,669 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
aniline has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 aniline, spelled A-N-I-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Composé organique aromatique de formule brute C₆H₅NH₂, appartenant à la classe des amines.
- 2Couleur, teinture violet bleues, indigo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aniline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aniline est un liquide incolore, d’une odeur vineuse agréable et d’une saveur brûlante.
Le phénol et la paratoluidine, ainsi que le paracrésol et l’aniline, chauffés à 260-300° avec du chlorure de zinc, donnent de la phénylparatolylamine.
Synonyms
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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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