citrate
\si.tʁat\
The verdict
“citrate” is uncommon French (frequency #53,856 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,856
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique des sels formés par la combinaison de l’acide citrique avec différentes bases.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citrate · citrate · French
citrate · rank #53,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clament
Nearest frequency peer: clament (+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 « citrate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
- chutant
chutant
46,147 corpus weight
- citrate
citrate
46,145 corpus weight
- clament
clament
46,144 corpus weight
- clinical
clinical
46,143 corpus weight
- cloque
cloque
46,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « citrate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tʁat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « citrate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
citrate is uncommon French at frequency #53,856 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.tʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom générique des sels formés par la combinaison de l’acide citrique avec différentes bases.".
citrate has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is citrate, spelled C-I-T-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom générique des sels formés par la combinaison de l’acide citrique avec différentes bases.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how citrate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les citrates, autres que le citrate de calcium et le citrate de magnésium, ne sont d’aucun usage.
Or il ne peut traverser la membrane interne mitochondriale : il est pris en charge par la navette du citrate.
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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