enthalpie
\ɑ̃.tal.pi\
The verdict
“enthalpie” is uncommon French (frequency #93,740 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,740
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesure thermodynamique de la variation de la quantité de chaleur contenue dans un système physique ou chimique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enthalpie · enthalpie · French
enthalpie · rank #93,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,740
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ensa
Nearest frequency peer: ensa (-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 « enthalpie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- engorgé
engorgé
6,266 corpus weight
- Enos
Enos
6,264 corpus weight
- ensa
ensa
6,262 corpus weight
- enthalpie
enthalpie
6,261 corpus weight
- entérologie
entérologie
6,259 corpus weight
- espionnais
espionnais
6,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enthalpie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enthalpie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tal.pi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enthalpie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enthalpie is uncommon French at frequency #93,740 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tal.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mesure thermodynamique de la variation de la quantité de chaleur contenue dans un système physique ou chimique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enthalpie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enthalpie, spelled E-N-T-H-A-L-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Mesure thermodynamique de la variation de la quantité de chaleur contenue dans un système physique ou chimique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enthalpie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle fonction thermodynamique (…), qui reçut de Kamerlingh Onnes le nom d'« enthalpie », joue, pour les transformations à pression constante, le rôle que joue l'énergie interne pour les transformations à volume constant.
Cette technique permettra de déterminer la température de fusion T_f et de cristallisation T_c, l’enthalpie de fusion DH_f et de cristallisation DH_c et le taux de cristallinité χ_c.
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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