lipide
\li.pid\
The verdict
“lipide” is uncommon French (frequency #99,295 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,295
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécule hydrophobe ou amphipathique qui constitue la matière grasse des êtres vivants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lipide · lipide · French
lipide · rank #99,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,295
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lithographique
Nearest frequency peer: lithographique (+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 « lipide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liguer
liguer
710 corpus weight
- Lilloises
Lilloises
709 corpus weight
- limitatif
limitatif
708 corpus weight
- lipide
lipide
706 corpus weight
- lithographi…
lithographique
705 corpus weight
- Loango
Loango
703 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lipide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lipide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.pid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lipide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lipide is uncommon French at frequency #99,295 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.pid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Molécule hydrophobe ou amphipathique qui constitue la matière grasse des êtres vivants.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lipide, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lipide, spelled L-I-P-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Molécule hydrophobe ou amphipathique qui constitue la matière grasse des êtres vivants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lipide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est l’intensité de l’effort qui détermine si le carburant utilisé sera le glucide ou le lipide.
Le jaune d’œuf contient des lipides, des protéines, des glucides, des minéraux, des vitamines et de l'eau. L'eau constitue 48 % de la masse totale du jaune.
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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