glycine
\ɡli.sin\
The verdict
“glycine” is uncommon French (frequency #60,824 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,824
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante grimpante du genre Wisteria de la famille des Fabacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glycine · glycine · French
glycine · rank #60,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,824
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Glucksmann
Nearest frequency peer: Glucksmann (-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 « glycine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gipsy
gipsy
39,180 corpus weight
- glitch
glitch
39,179 corpus weight
- Glucksmann
Glucksmann
39,178 corpus weight
- glycine
glycine
39,177 corpus weight
- gnagnagna
gnagnagna
39,176 corpus weight
- gnostique
gnostique
39,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glycine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glycine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glycine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glycine is uncommon French at frequency #60,824 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡli.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante grimpante du genre Wisteria de la famille des Fabacées.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glycine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is glycine, spelled G-L-Y-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante grimpante du genre Wisteria de la famille des Fabacées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glycine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout d’un moment, David poussa une grille revêtue de glycines comme d’une housse.
En effet, à l’exception des fleurs, la glycine contient des principes toxiques (phytohémagglutinines, hétérosides, etc. ) dans toutes ses parties, du moins à l’état cru – comme le Robinier ( cf. Robinia ).
Synonyms
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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