lécithine
\le.si.tin\
The verdict
“lécithine” is uncommon French (frequency #84,986 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,986
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glycérophospholipides, groupe de substance phosphorée et grasse qui se trouve notamment dans la fibrine animale, ce sont des esters choliques d’acides phosphatidipatiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lecithine · lécithine · French
lécithine · rank #84,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,986
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lâchais
Nearest frequency peer: lâchais (-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 « lécithine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lupino
lupino
15,017 corpus weight
- lâchais
lâchais
15,016 corpus weight
- lécithine
lécithine
15,015 corpus weight
- légumineuse
légumineuse
15,014 corpus weight
- machiavéliq…
machiavéliques
15,013 corpus weight
- macroscopiq…
macroscopiques
15,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lécithine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lécithine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.si.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lécithine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lécithine is uncommon French at frequency #84,986 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.si.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Glycérophospholipides, groupe de substance phosphorée et grasse qui se trouve notamment dans la fibrine animale, ce sont des esters choliques d’acides phosphatidipatiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lécithine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 lécithine, spelled L-É-C-I-T-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Glycérophospholipides, groupe de substance phosphorée et grasse qui se trouve notamment dans la fibrine animale, ce sont des esters choliques d’acides phosphatidipatiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lécithine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’acide ascorbique pour freiner l’oxydation de la pâte et lui conférer une meilleure élasticité, du levain déshydraté pour donner plus de goût, de la lécithine de soja, génétiquement modifiée ou pas, pour augmenter la durée de conservation et l’onctuosité de la mie, du monostéarate de glycérol pour diminuer le cloquage de la croûte, du propionate de ca…
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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