dextrogyre
\dɛks.tʁo.ʒiʁ\
The verdict
“dextrogyre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tourne, qui incline vers la droite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dextrogyre · dextrogyre · French
dextrogyre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | dextrogyre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛks.tʁo.ʒiʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dextrogyre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛks.tʁo.ʒiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
dextrogyre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dextrogyre, spelled D-E-X-T-R-O-G-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tourne, qui incline vers la droite.
- 2Qualifie une écriture dont les traits vont vers la droite.
- 3Qualifie toute substance chimique et spécialement d’un stéréo-isomère faisant tourner vers la droite le plan de polarisation de la lumière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dextrogyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Habiles métallurgistes, les Tlingits travaillaient le cuivre, et même parfois le fer qu’ils récupéraient, bien avant l’arrivée des navires européens, sur des épaves chinoises et japonaises portées par les courants dextrogyres du Pacifique Nord.
Deux équipes de recherche indépendantes ont élaboré et publié des modèles de l’ADN incompatibles avec le modèle de double hélice dextrogyre de Watson-Crick.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.