bilirubine
\bi.li.ʁy.bin\
The verdict
“bilirubine” is uncommon French (frequency #82,733 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,733
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pigment biliaire jaune produit par la dégradation de la partie non-protéique de l'hémoglobine, i.e. de l'hème. C'est un tétrapyrrole linéaire de couleur jaune rougeâtre, de formule brute C₃₃H₃₆N₄O₆...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bilirubine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.li.ʁy.bin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bilirubine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bilirubine is uncommon French at frequency #82,733 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.li.ʁy.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pigment biliaire jaune produit par la dégradation de la partie non-protéique de l'hémoglobine, i.e. de l'hème. C'est un tétrapyrrole linéaire de couleur jaune rougeâtre, de formule brute C₃₃H₃₆N₄O₆...".
Zero misspellings are on record for bilirubine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bilirubine, spelled B-I-L-I-R-U-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pigment biliaire jaune produit par la dégradation de la partie non-protéique de l'hémoglobine, i.e. de l'hème. C'est un tétrapyrrole linéaire de couleur jaune rougeâtre, de formule brute C₃₃H₃₆N₄O₆, produit et accumulé dans la bile du foie sous sa forme dite "libre" — à laquelle il donne sa couleur, qui est ensuite conjugué à l'acide glucuronique avant d'être excrété dans le plasma — forme dite "conjuguée" — puis éliminé au niveau du tractus intestinal et du rein.
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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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Using “bilirubine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-L-I-R-U-B-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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