caséine
\ka.ze.in\
The verdict
“caséine” is uncommon French (frequency #65,009 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,009
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance albuminoïde blanche que contient le lait, partie en dissolution, partie en suspension.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caseine · caséine · French
caséine · rank #65,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassa
Nearest frequency peer: cassa (-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 « caséine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caramels
caramels
34,995 corpus weight
- cassa
cassa
34,993 corpus weight
- caséine
caséine
34,992 corpus weight
- Cauvin
Cauvin
34,991 corpus weight
- CCM
CCM
34,990 corpus weight
- centauri
centauri
34,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caséine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caséine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ze.in\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caséine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caséine is uncommon French at frequency #65,009 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ze.in\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance albuminoïde blanche que contient le lait, partie en dissolution, partie en suspension.".
caséine has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 caséine, spelled C-A-S-É-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Substance albuminoïde blanche que contient le lait, partie en dissolution, partie en suspension.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caséine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces produits, appelés matières albuminoïdes ou substances protéiques, jouent un rôle essentiel dans le développement des êtres vivants : l’albumine de l’œuf, la fibrine du sang, la caséine du lait, le gluten de la farine appartiennent à ce groupe.
Soie de caséine.
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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