lipase
\li.paz\
The verdict
“lipase” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enzyme qui catalyse l’hydrolyse des triglycérides en acides gras et glycérol, notamment lors de la digestion des lipides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lipase · lipase · French
lipase · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lipase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.paz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lipase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lipase is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.paz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enzyme qui catalyse l’hydrolyse des triglycérides en acides gras et glycérol, notamment lors de la digestion des lipides.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lipase, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 lipase, spelled L-I-P-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Enzyme qui catalyse l’hydrolyse des triglycérides en acides gras et glycérol, notamment lors de la digestion des lipides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lipase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des insectes végétariens, tels que les Melonlonthiens n'ont pas de trace de lipase, alors que les Dytiques, les Carabes, ont une diastase lipasique très abondante.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.