cétone
\se.tɔn\
The verdict
“cétone” is uncommon French (frequency #86,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,595
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé organique, faisant partie de la famille des composés carbonylés, dont l’un des carbones porte un groupement carbonyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cetone · cétone · French
cétone · rank #86,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,595
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Córdoba
Nearest frequency peer: Córdoba (+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 « cétone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crématoires
crématoires
13,410 corpus weight
- crémerie
crémerie
13,409 corpus weight
- cupules
cupules
13,408 corpus weight
- cétone
cétone
13,406 corpus weight
- Córdoba
Córdoba
13,405 corpus weight
- Danish
Danish
13,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cétone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cétone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cétone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cétone is uncommon French at frequency #86,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé organique, faisant partie de la famille des composés carbonylés, dont l’un des carbones porte un groupement carbonyle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cétone, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cétone, spelled C-É-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Composé organique, faisant partie de la famille des composés carbonylés, dont l’un des carbones porte un groupement carbonyle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cétone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, l’industrie consomme énormément d’aldéhydes et de cétones, tant comme réactifs que comme solvants lors des synthèses.
Le MPCC proscrit notamment les cétones, des compléments alimentaires que l’équipe néerlandaise utilise.
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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