cytochrome
\si.tɔ.kʁom\
The verdict
“cytochrome” is uncommon French (frequency #83,755 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,755
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chromoprotéine hémique, intervenant comme transporteur d'électrons dans la chaîne de respiration cellulaire.
| 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) |
Where “cytochrome” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cytochrome is uncommon French at frequency #83,755 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “cytochrome”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-Y-T-O-C-H-R-O-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.tɔ.kʁom\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.