chitine
\ki.tin\
The verdict
“chitine” is uncommon French (frequency #95,694 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,694
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principal composant de l'exosquelette des arthropodes, présent aussi chez certains champignons et lichens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chitine · chitine · French
chitine · rank #95,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,694
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chinoiseries
Nearest frequency peer: chinoiseries (-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 « chitine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheptels
cheptels
4,311 corpus weight
- chicks
chicks
4,309 corpus weight
- chinoiseries
chinoiseries
4,308 corpus weight
- chitine
chitine
4,307 corpus weight
- chocottes
chocottes
4,305 corpus weight
- chéquiers
chéquiers
4,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chitine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chitine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chitine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chitine is uncommon French at frequency #95,694 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Principal composant de l'exosquelette des arthropodes, présent aussi chez certains champignons et lichens.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chitine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chitine, spelled C-H-I-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Principal composant de l'exosquelette des arthropodes, présent aussi chez certains champignons et lichens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chitine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La morphologie de ses cellules à paroi est identique à celle des végétaux, mais composée de chitine propre aux animaux à carapace.
Un des caractères importants qui le distingue des végétaux est la composition des ses parois cellulaires, faites en majeure partie de chitine, une chitine proche de celle des Arthropodes.
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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