bactéricide
\bak.te.ʁi.sid\
The verdict
“bactéricide” is uncommon French (frequency #83,617 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,617
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tue les bactéries en parlant d’un produit ou d’un phénomène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bactericide · bactéricide · French
bactéricide · rank #83,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,617
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baccara
Nearest frequency peer: baccara (-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 « bactéricide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ausculte
ausculte
16,388 corpus weight
- bacca
bacca
16,386 corpus weight
- baccara
baccara
16,385 corpus weight
- bactéricide
bactéricide
16,384 corpus weight
- badaud
badaud
16,382 corpus weight
- Bages
Bages
16,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bactéricide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bactéricide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bak.te.ʁi.sid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bactéricide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bactéricide is uncommon French at frequency #83,617 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bak.te.ʁi.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui tue les bactéries en parlant d’un produit ou d’un phénomène.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bactéricide, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bactéricide, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tue les bactéries en parlant d’un produit ou d’un phénomène.
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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