arginine
\aʁ.ʒi.nin\
The verdict
“arginine” is uncommon French (frequency #85,476 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,476
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acide aminé aliphatique, diaminé et polaire dont le groupement latéral contient une guanidine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arginine · arginine · French
arginine · rank #85,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,476
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arnie
Nearest frequency peer: arnie (+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 « arginine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Apulée
Apulée
14,530 corpus weight
- Arbour
Arbour
14,528 corpus weight
- Arfi
Arfi
14,527 corpus weight
- arginine
arginine
14,525 corpus weight
- arnie
arnie
14,524 corpus weight
- Aronofsky
Aronofsky
14,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arginine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arginine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒi.nin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arginine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arginine is uncommon French at frequency #85,476 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʒi.nin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acide aminé aliphatique, diaminé et polaire dont le groupement latéral contient une guanidine.".
arginine has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arginine, spelled A-R-G-I-N-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Acide aminé aliphatique, diaminé et polaire dont le groupement latéral contient une guanidine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arginine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’arginine est un précurseur de la créatine.
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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