antioxydant
\ɑ̃.ti.ɔk.si.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“antioxydant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,382
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De nature à diminuer ou empêcher l’oxydation d’autres substances chimiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antioxydant · antioxydant · French
antioxydant · rank #70,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,382
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antidrogue
Nearest frequency peer: antidrogue (-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 « antioxydant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticancére…
anticancéreux
29,621 corpus weight
- antidrogue
antidrogue
29,620 corpus weight
- antioxydant
antioxydant
29,619 corpus weight
- antipersonn…
antipersonnel
29,618 corpus weight
- antisystème
antisystème
29,617 corpus weight
- Antti
Antti
29,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antioxydant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antioxydant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.ɔk.si.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antioxydant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antioxydant is uncommon French at frequency #70,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.ɔk.si.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De nature à diminuer ou empêcher l’oxydation d’autres substances chimiques.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for antioxydant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is antioxydant, spelled A-N-T-I-O-X-Y-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1De nature à diminuer ou empêcher l’oxydation d’autres substances chimiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antioxydant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sauge est œstrogénique, antioxydante, antalgique, anti-inflammatoire, neuro-protectrice, anti-asthénique et antiseptique localement.
Très riche en vitamines A, B3, B8, D, K, et E, c’est une huile antioxydante, restructurante et hydratante bien adaptée aux peaux matures.
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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