chaîne latérale
\ʃɛn la.te.ʁal\
The verdict
“chaîne latérale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’une molécule rattachée au cœur ou à la chaîne principale de la structure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaine-laterale · chaîne latérale · French
chaîne latérale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaîne latérale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛn la.te.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chaîne latérale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛn la.te.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for chaîne latérale in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is chaîne latérale, spelled C-H-A-Î-N-E- -L-A-T-É-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Partie d’une molécule rattachée au cœur ou à la chaîne principale de la structure.
- 2Dans la structure d'un acide aminé, chaîne carbonée rattachée au carbone asymétrique et qui distingue les différents acides aminés.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.