histamine
\is.ta.min\
The verdict
“histamine” is uncommon French (frequency #79,383 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,383
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médiateur chimique synthétisé par les granulocytes éosinophiles et les mastocytes, de formule chimique brute C₅H₉N₃.
Corpus desk
Index FR-histamine · histamine · French
histamine · rank #79,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,383
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hir
Nearest frequency peer: hir (-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 « histamine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Helms
Helms
20,621 corpus weight
- hexagones
hexagones
20,620 corpus weight
- hir
hir
20,619 corpus weight
- histamine
histamine
20,618 corpus weight
- historial
historial
20,617 corpus weight
- Hodgkin
Hodgkin
20,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « histamine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | histamine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \is.ta.min\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « histamine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
histamine is uncommon French at frequency #79,383 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \is.ta.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médiateur chimique synthétisé par les granulocytes éosinophiles et les mastocytes, de formule chimique brute C₅H₉N₃.".
Zero misspellings are on record for histamine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 histamine, spelled H-I-S-T-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Médiateur chimique synthétisé par les granulocytes éosinophiles et les mastocytes, de formule chimique brute C₅H₉N₃.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how histamine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En s'intéressant aux mécanismes de l’éveil et de la vigilance, l’équipe de Jian-Sheng Lin, directeur de recherche à l’Inserm, a mis en évidence le rôle respectif de l’orexine et de l’histamine, deux neurotransmetteurs dont le déficit entraîne la somnolence.
En dégageant de l’histamine, ils provoquent des céphalées, voire, selon les allergologues, des rhinorrhées, des éternuements, des démangeaisons, de l’urticaire, des douleurs abdominales et même, pour les plus sensibles, de l’asthme… — (« Sulfites : Ça sulfite comme ça », Malbouffe, le dico, Les Dossiers du Canard enchaîné nᵒ 147, avril 2018, page 77)
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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