édulcorer
\e.dyl.kɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“édulcorer” is uncommon French (frequency #91,318 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,318
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adoucir un médicament en y ajoutant du sucre ou quelque sirop.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edulcorer · édulcorer · French
édulcorer · rank #91,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,318
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écrases
Nearest frequency peer: écrases (-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 « édulcorer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zosime
Zosime
8,688 corpus weight
- écrases
écrases
8,684 corpus weight
- édulcorer
édulcorer
8,683 corpus weight
- égaye
égaye
8,682 corpus weight
- égyptologie
égyptologie
8,681 corpus weight
- élabora
élabora
8,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édulcorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édulcorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.dyl.kɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édulcorer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édulcorer is uncommon French at frequency #91,318 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.dyl.kɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
édulcorer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is édulcorer, spelled É-D-U-L-C-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Adoucir un médicament en y ajoutant du sucre ou quelque sirop.
- 2Affaiblir, affadir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how édulcorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tisane édulcorée.
Jeudi soir, elle a martelé ses priorités de nouveau dans son discours et n’a pas donné l’impression qu’elle édulcorerait son message prochainement.
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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