codon
\kɔ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“codon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Triplet de nucléotides (adénine, cytosine, uracile ou guanine de l'acide ribonucléique messager) entrant dans la composition d'un acide nucléique, et désigné par les initiales des trois bases corre...
Corpus desk
Index FR-codon · codon · French
codon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | codon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « codon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
codon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Triplet de nucléotides (adénine, cytosine, uracile ou guanine de l'acide ribonucléique messager) entrant dans la composition d'un acide nucléique, et désigné par les initiales des trois bases corre...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for codon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is codon, spelled C-O-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Triplet de nucléotides (adénine, cytosine, uracile ou guanine de l'acide ribonucléique messager) entrant dans la composition d'un acide nucléique, et désigné par les initiales des trois bases correspondantes (bases puriques ou pyrimidiques).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how codon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis les borborygmes jusqu’aux hiéroglyphes, depuis les alphabets jusqu’aux octets, jusqu’aux codons, les transductions successives de la Words Words Words Inc. ne cessent de nous promettre à la décorporation finale dans le symbole.
This word in other languages
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