lactate
\lak.tat\
The verdict
“lactate” is uncommon French (frequency #79,469 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,469
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide lactique avec une base.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lactate · lactate · French
lactate · rank #79,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,469
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lactiques
Nearest frequency peer: lactiques (+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 « lactate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kuan
kuan
20,537 corpus weight
- kurz
kurz
20,536 corpus weight
- Kyrgios
Kyrgios
20,535 corpus weight
- lactate
lactate
20,532 corpus weight
- lactiques
lactiques
20,531 corpus weight
- Lampaul
Lampaul
20,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lactate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lactate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak.tat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lactate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lactate is uncommon French at frequency #79,469 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak.tat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide lactique avec une base.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lactate in our index, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lactate, spelled L-A-C-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide lactique avec une base.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lactate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lactate est donc un déchet du métabolisme fermentaire, alors qu'il renferme un pouvoir réducteur résiduel important. Ce déchet est éliminé des cellules de manière à poursuivre les oxydations cellulaires.
Cette élévation du débit sanguin, en facilitant la sortie du lactate du muscle vers le compartiment sanguin, permet d'augmenter l'élimination du lactate par les autres tissus qui consomment le lactate.
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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