fermentation lactique
\fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃ lak.tik\
The verdict
“fermentation lactique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mode de production d’énergie anaérobie qui se produit dans les cellules bactériennes sans nécessiter de dioxygène. C’est une transformation du glucose qui induit une formation d’acide lactique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermentation lactique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃ lak.tik\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fermentation lactique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fermentation lactique is 21 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃ lak.tik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mode de production d’énergie anaérobie qui se produit dans les cellules bactériennes sans nécessiter de dioxygène. C’est une transformation du glucose qui induit une formation d’acide lactique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fermentation lactique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fermentation lactique, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N- -L-A-C-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mode de production d’énergie anaérobie qui se produit dans les cellules bactériennes sans nécessiter de dioxygène. C’est une transformation du glucose qui induit une formation d’acide lactique.
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- The one correct French spelling is F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N- -L-A-C-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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