chiralité
\ki.ʁa.li.te\
The verdict
“chiralité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propriété géométrique d’un objet non superposable à son image dans un miroir, en particulier d’une entité moléculaire, du spin d’une particule, d’un polyèdre, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiralite · chiralité · French
chiralité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | chiralité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.ʁa.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiralité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiralité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.ʁa.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propriété géométrique d’un objet non superposable à son image dans un miroir, en particulier d’une entité moléculaire, du spin d’une particule, d’un polyèdre, etc.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chiralité, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chiralité, spelled C-H-I-R-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Propriété géométrique d’un objet non superposable à son image dans un miroir, en particulier d’une entité moléculaire, du spin d’une particule, d’un polyèdre, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiralité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs molécules comme plusieurs objets de la vie courante présentent une asymétrie que l’on appelle chiralité.
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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.