kinase
\ki.naz\
The verdict
“kinase” is uncommon French (frequency #98,149 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,149
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protéine dont la fonction est de modifier les paramètres d’autres protéines en leur ajoutant des phosphates (par phosphorylation).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kinase · kinase · French
kinase · rank #98,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,149
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kis
Nearest frequency peer: kis (+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 « kinase »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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kickboxing
1,855 corpus weight
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kima
1,854 corpus weight
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kinase
1,852 corpus weight
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kis
1,851 corpus weight
- Knudsen
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1,850 corpus weight
- kochi
kochi
1,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kinase » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kinase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.naz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kinase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kinase is uncommon French at frequency #98,149 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.naz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Protéine dont la fonction est de modifier les paramètres d’autres protéines en leur ajoutant des phosphates (par phosphorylation).".
kinase has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kinase, spelled K-I-N-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Protéine dont la fonction est de modifier les paramètres d’autres protéines en leur ajoutant des phosphates (par phosphorylation).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kinase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les portions intracellulaires des chaines β du récepteur membranaire de l'insuline sont douées d'une activité tyrosine kinase intrinsèque.
La phosphorylation de Foxo1 par la kinase Akt/PKB stimulée par l’insuline induit une inactivation et une exclusion du noyau de Foxo1.
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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