hydroxyde
\i.dʁɔk.sid\
The verdict
“hydroxyde” is uncommon French (frequency #56,658 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,658
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé contenant au moins un groupement hydroxyle et vu comme susceptible de céder un ion OH⁻.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydroxyde · hydroxyde · French
hydroxyde · rank #56,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,658
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydromel
Nearest frequency peer: hydromel (-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 « hydroxyde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hutch
hutch
43,346 corpus weight
- Huygens
Huygens
43,345 corpus weight
- hydromel
hydromel
43,344 corpus weight
- hydroxyde
hydroxyde
43,343 corpus weight
- héritera
héritera
43,341 corpus weight
- imbriqués
imbriqués
43,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hydroxyde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydroxyde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dʁɔk.sid\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hydroxyde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hydroxyde is uncommon French at frequency #56,658 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.dʁɔk.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hydroxyde in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hydroxyde, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composé contenant au moins un groupement hydroxyle et vu comme susceptible de céder un ion OH⁻.
- 2L’ion OH⁻ lui-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydroxyde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les produits cupriques utilisables en pulvérisation, il faut citer l’hydroxyde de cuivre, l'oxyde cuivreux en émulsion huileuse et l'oxychlorure tétracuivrique.
Les hydroxydes d’ammonium sont également formés par réaction de l’hydroxyde d’argent avec un sel d’ammonium.
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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