finastéride
\fi.nas.te.ʁid\
The verdict
“finastéride” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé chimique de formule brute C₂₃H₃₆N₂O₂, utilisé comme médicament anti-androgène pour soigner l’hypertrophie bénigne de la prostate, le cancer de la prostate et la calvitie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finasteride · finastéride · French
finastéride · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | finastéride |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.nas.te.ʁid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
finastéride is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.nas.te.ʁid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé chimique de formule brute C₂₃H₃₆N₂O₂, utilisé comme médicament anti-androgène pour soigner l’hypertrophie bénigne de la prostate, le cancer de la prostate et la calvitie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for finastéride, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is finastéride, spelled F-I-N-A-S-T-É-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique de formule brute C₂₃H₃₆N₂O₂, utilisé comme médicament anti-androgène pour soigner l’hypertrophie bénigne de la prostate, le cancer de la prostate et la calvitie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how finastéride appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Chez les hommes présentant une alopécie androgénique, on pourrait imaginer, avec toutes les précautions d'usage, que si on donnait de la finastéride à faible dose, ça permettrait peut-être de réduire leur risque de cancer de la prostate plus tard », a expliqué le Dr Giraud.
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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.