chromatine
\kʁɔ.ma.tin\
The verdict
“chromatine” is uncommon French (frequency #84,635 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,635
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance composée de molécule d’ADN, d’ARN et de protéines, qui sert à créer les chromosomes eucaryotes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chromatine · chromatine · French
chromatine · rank #84,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,635
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chicots
Nearest frequency peer: chicots (-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 « chromatine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chevaleresq…
chevaleresques
15,369 corpus weight
- Chevreul
Chevreul
15,368 corpus weight
- chicots
chicots
15,367 corpus weight
- chromatine
chromatine
15,366 corpus weight
- chrysalides
chrysalides
15,365 corpus weight
- cinémascope
cinémascope
15,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chromatine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chromatine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.ma.tin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chromatine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chromatine is uncommon French at frequency #84,635 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.ma.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance composée de molécule d’ADN, d’ARN et de protéines, qui sert à créer les chromosomes eucaryotes.".
chromatine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chromatine, spelled C-H-R-O-M-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Substance composée de molécule d’ADN, d’ARN et de protéines, qui sert à créer les chromosomes eucaryotes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chromatine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par des recherches cytogénétiques, on a mis en évidence la présence de la chromatine sexuelle chez environ 82 p. 100 des cellules examinées chez tous les intersexes qui appartiennent du point de vue anatomo-clinique à cette dysgénésie.
Le degré de condensation de la chromatine varie au cours du cycle cellulaire.
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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