héparine
\e.pa.ʁin\
The verdict
“héparine” is uncommon French (frequency #73,237 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,237
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Famille de molécule de la famille des glycosaminoglycanes, de formule brute C₁₂H₁₉NO₂₀S₃. C’est un anticoagulant naturel puissant utilisé notamment pour son action sur la thrombose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heparine · héparine · French
héparine · rank #73,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,237
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hygiénistes
Nearest frequency peer: hygiénistes (-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 « héparine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hungry
hungry
26,767 corpus weight
- hygiénistes
hygiénistes
26,765 corpus weight
- héparine
héparine
26,764 corpus weight
- Hérouville
Hérouville
26,763 corpus weight
- ibères
ibères
26,762 corpus weight
- idolâtres
idolâtres
26,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « héparine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héparine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pa.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « héparine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
héparine is uncommon French at frequency #73,237 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pa.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Famille de molécule de la famille des glycosaminoglycanes, de formule brute C₁₂H₁₉NO₂₀S₃. C’est un anticoagulant naturel puissant utilisé notamment pour son action sur la thrombose.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for héparine in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is héparine, spelled H-É-P-A-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Famille de molécule de la famille des glycosaminoglycanes, de formule brute C₁₂H₁₉NO₂₀S₃. C’est un anticoagulant naturel puissant utilisé notamment pour son action sur la thrombose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how héparine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chercheurs ont en effet observé que l’administration d’héparine dans les premières 24 heures à la suite de l’admission était associée à une diminution de 27 % du risque de mortalité dans le mois suivant l’hospitalisation.
Les effets perméabilisants qui accompagnent les réactions anaphylactiques cutanées ne sont pas modifiés par l’héparine.
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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