glycogène
\ɡli.kɔ.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“glycogène” is uncommon French (frequency #65,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,974
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glucide complexe polymère du glucose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glycogene · glycogène · French
glycogène · rank #65,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,974
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gott
Nearest frequency peer: Gott (+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 « glycogène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gesticulati…
gesticulations
34,031 corpus weight
- Givet
Givet
34,029 corpus weight
- glycogène
glycogène
34,027 corpus weight
- Gott
Gott
34,026 corpus weight
- gouine
gouine
34,025 corpus weight
- grimaçant
grimaçant
34,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glycogène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glycogène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.kɔ.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glycogène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glycogène is uncommon French at frequency #65,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡli.kɔ.ʒɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Glucide complexe polymère du glucose.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for glycogène, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is glycogène, spelled G-L-Y-C-O-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Glucide complexe polymère du glucose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glycogène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le glycogéne est utilisé par les animaux pour stocker de l'énergie.
Pendant cette période le corps peut plus rapidement convertir les glucides en glycogène musculaire.
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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