fullerène

/\fy.lə.ʁɛn\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fullerène is aFrenchnoun. It means: Molécule composée d’atomes de carbone, d’une forme d’une sphère, d’un ellipsoïde, d’un tube ou d’un anneau, distinguée du diamant, du graphite et du carbone amorphe. Pronounced \fy.lə.ʁɛn\.

Key facts for fullerène
PropertyValue
Headwordfullerène
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fy.lə.ʁɛn\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fullerène is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fullerène is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.lə.ʁɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for fullerène 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 fullerène, spelled F-U-L-L-E-R-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Molécule composée d’atomes de carbone, d’une forme d’une sphère, d’un ellipsoïde, d’un tube ou d’un anneau, distinguée du diamant, du graphite et du carbone amorphe.
  2. 2
    Matière composée de ces molécules.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fullerène"?
"fullerène" is spelled F-U-L-L-E-R-È-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.lə.ʁɛn\.
What does "fullerène" mean?
As a noun, "fullerène" means: Molécule composée d’atomes de carbone, d’une forme d’une sphère, d’un ellipsoïde, d’un tube ou d’un anneau, distinguée du diamant, du graphite et du carbone amorphe.
How do you pronounce "fullerène"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fullerène" is \fy.lə.ʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fullerène" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.