créatine
\kʁe.a.tin\
The verdict
“créatine” is uncommon French (frequency #72,229 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,229
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dérivé d’acide aminé naturel, présent principalement dans les fibres musculaires et le cerveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creatine · créatine · French
créatine · rank #72,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,229
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crépitement
Nearest frequency peer: crépitement (+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 « créatine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- credible
credible
27,775 corpus weight
- crieur
crieur
27,774 corpus weight
- créatine
créatine
27,772 corpus weight
- crépitement
crépitement
27,771 corpus weight
- cyclopes
cyclopes
27,769 corpus weight
- Daigle
Daigle
27,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « créatine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | créatine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.a.tin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « créatine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
créatine is uncommon French at frequency #72,229 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.a.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dérivé d’acide aminé naturel, présent principalement dans les fibres musculaires et le cerveau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for créatine in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is créatine, spelled C-R-É-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dérivé d’acide aminé naturel, présent principalement dans les fibres musculaires et le cerveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how créatine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La créatine joue un rôle dans l’apport d’énergie aux cellules musculaires et dans la contraction musculaire.
La créatine a été découverte au 19e siècle déjà.
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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