azote
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,315
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
azote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 7 et de symbole N (venant de nitrogène, un ancien nom de l’azote parfois encore utilisé dans des traductions depuis l’anglais). C’est un non-métal, plus spécifiq... Pronounced \a.zɔt\. Often confused with acte and arte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.zɔt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for azote is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.zɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,315 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for azote, with forms such as "aozte", "azoet", and "azotte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "acte", "arte", "apte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is azote, spelled A-Z-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 7 et de symbole N (venant de nitrogène, un ancien nom de l’azote parfois encore utilisé dans des traductions depuis l’anglais). C’est un non-métal, plus spécifiquement un pnictogène.
- 2Gaz constitué de diazote (N₂), incolore et constituant 78,11 % de l’air ambiant.
- 3Composé azoté à usage d'engrais.
- 4(Chimie physique) (En particulier) Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) d’azote. #* 2° il est impossible d’admettre que le cycle indol soit rompu entre l’azote et le noyau benzène. Tous les essais effectués jusqu'à présent n'ont réussi qu'à briser l’indol entre l’azote et le carbone 1. — (Zénon Bacq, Pharmacodynamie biochimique, Masson, 1961, page 1054) #* Le premier de ces deux azotes qui contribue avec un électron pi au pool des électrons mobiles du système porte dans la molécule une charge négative. — (Marcel Florkin et Ernest Schoffeniels, Biochimie et biologie moléculaire, Desoer, 1967, page 55)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aozte,azoet,azotte,aztoe,azzote,zaote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for azote
Misspelling Variants of "azote"
Frequency rank: #12,315 in French
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