cytochrome
\si.tɔ.kʁom\
The verdict
“cytochrome” is uncommon French (frequency #83,755 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,755
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chromoprotéine hémique, intervenant comme transporteur d'électrons dans la chaîne de respiration cellulaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cytochrome · cytochrome · French
cytochrome · rank #83,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,755
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuvelier
Nearest frequency peer: cuvelier (-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 « cytochrome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cumulatives
cumulatives
16,249 corpus weight
- customisati…
customisation
16,248 corpus weight
- cuvelier
cuvelier
16,247 corpus weight
- cytochrome
cytochrome
16,246 corpus weight
- céladon
céladon
16,245 corpus weight
- céphalée
céphalée
16,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cytochrome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cytochrome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tɔ.kʁom\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cytochrome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cytochrome is uncommon French at frequency #83,755 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.tɔ.kʁom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chromoprotéine hémique, intervenant comme transporteur d'électrons dans la chaîne de respiration cellulaire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cytochrome in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cytochrome, spelled C-Y-T-O-C-H-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Chromoprotéine hémique, intervenant comme transporteur d'électrons dans la chaîne de respiration cellulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cytochrome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cytochrome c oxydase mitochondriale et ses homologues bactériens catalysent les réactions de transfert d'électrons et de translocation de protons à travers les membranes.
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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