chloroquine
\klɔ.ʁo.kin\
The verdict
“chloroquine” is uncommon French (frequency #88,457 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,457
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance utilisée comme médicament contre le paludisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chloroquine · chloroquine · French
chloroquine · rank #88,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,457
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chibi
Nearest frequency peer: chibi (-2 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 « chloroquine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheminent
cheminent
11,548 corpus weight
- chercheure
chercheure
11,547 corpus weight
- chibi
chibi
11,546 corpus weight
- chloroquine
chloroquine
11,544 corpus weight
- clearing
clearing
11,541 corpus weight
- clicks
clicks
11,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chloroquine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chloroquine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.ʁo.kin\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chloroquine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chloroquine is uncommon French at frequency #88,457 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.ʁo.kin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance utilisée comme médicament contre le paludisme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chloroquine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chloroquine, spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Substance utilisée comme médicament contre le paludisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chloroquine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paludismes causés par les autres espèces sont en général sensibles à la chloroquine.
À noter que deux syndicats de médecins et d’infirmiers ont saisi le Conseil d’État pour réclamer notamment des "moyens de dépistage massif" du coronavirus et la prescription de chloroquine aux patients à risque, deux sujets pour lesquels la gestion de crise du gouvernement est critiquée.
Synonyms
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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