graphène
\ɡʁa.fɛn\
The verdict
“graphène” is uncommon French (frequency #74,044 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,044
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cristal bidimensionnel qui se présente sous la forme d’un feuillet constitué d’un pavage hexagonal régulier d’atomes de carbone et dont l’empilement constitue le graphite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graphene · graphène · French
graphène · rank #74,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grammys
Nearest frequency peer: Grammys (-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 « graphène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gourmette
gourmette
25,960 corpus weight
- Gower
Gower
25,959 corpus weight
- Grammys
Grammys
25,958 corpus weight
- graphène
graphène
25,957 corpus weight
- Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn
25,955 corpus weight
- gèlent
gèlent
25,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graphène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graphène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.fɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graphène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graphène is uncommon French at frequency #74,044 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.fɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cristal bidimensionnel qui se présente sous la forme d’un feuillet constitué d’un pavage hexagonal régulier d’atomes de carbone et dont l’empilement constitue le graphite.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for graphène, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is graphène, spelled G-R-A-P-H-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Cristal bidimensionnel qui se présente sous la forme d’un feuillet constitué d’un pavage hexagonal régulier d’atomes de carbone et dont l’empilement constitue le graphite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graphène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nanotube de carbone, c'est aussi une usine. Des chercheurs finlandais (université Aalto) ont synthétisé des nanorubans de graphène - autre variété de carbone - à l'intérieur de nanotubes.
Les masques FFP2 contenant du graphène, un matériau synthétique, doivent être évités par précaution.
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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