colchicine
\kɔl.ʃi.sin\
The verdict
“colchicine” is uncommon French (frequency #96,763 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,763
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alcaloïde de formule brute C₂₂H₂₅NO₅ présent dans les semences de colchique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colchicine · colchicine · French
colchicine · rank #96,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,763
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collo
Nearest frequency peer: collo (+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 « colchicine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coaguler
coaguler
3,242 corpus weight
- cocardes
cocardes
3,241 corpus weight
- colchicine
colchicine
3,238 corpus weight
- collo
collo
3,237 corpus weight
- coloristes
coloristes
3,236 corpus weight
- colporte
colporte
3,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colchicine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colchicine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.ʃi.sin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colchicine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colchicine is uncommon French at frequency #96,763 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl.ʃi.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
colchicine has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is colchicine, spelled C-O-L-C-H-I-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alcaloïde de formule brute C₂₂H₂₅NO₅ présent dans les semences de colchique.
- 2Énantiomère à usage thérapeutique, (S)-colchicine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colchicine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exsanguino-transfusion a été proposée mais étant donné la rapide fixation de la colchicine sur les organes elle est de peu d’intérêt.
L’épidémiologiste Nimâ Machouf voit les résultats de l’étude sur la colchicine comme une «lueur d’espoir» qui pourrait éventuellement venir alléger la pression qu’impose la pandémie de COVID-19 aux hôpitaux.
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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