hexane
\ɛɡ.zan\
The verdict
“hexane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, à cinq isomères (n-hexane, 2-méthylpentane ou isohexane, 3-méthylpentane, 2,3-diméthylbutane, et 2,2-diméthylbutane). Sa formule chimique est C₆H₁₄...
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Index FR-hexane · hexane · French
hexane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hexane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hexane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.zan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, à cinq isomères (n-hexane, 2-méthylpentane ou isohexane, 3-méthylpentane, 2,3-diméthylbutane, et 2,2-diméthylbutane). Sa formule chimique est C₆H₁₄...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hexane in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is hexane, spelled H-E-X-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, à cinq isomères (n-hexane, 2-méthylpentane ou isohexane, 3-méthylpentane, 2,3-diméthylbutane, et 2,2-diméthylbutane). Sa formule chimique est C₆H₁₄ et c'est un puissant neurotoxique qui entraîne une paralysie.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.