métabolite
\me.ta.bo.lit\
The verdict
“métabolite” is uncommon French (frequency #82,261 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,261
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément du métabolisme de l'organisme, produit lors d'une réaction métabolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metabolite · métabolite · French
métabolite · rank #82,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,261
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méthylène
Nearest frequency peer: méthylène (+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 « métabolite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mécontenter
mécontenter
17,744 corpus weight
- médicalisat…
médicalisation
17,743 corpus weight
- médisant
médisant
17,742 corpus weight
- métabolite
métabolite
17,740 corpus weight
- méthylène
méthylène
17,739 corpus weight
- mêlera
mêlera
17,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métabolite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métabolite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ta.bo.lit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métabolite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métabolite is uncommon French at frequency #82,261 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ta.bo.lit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élément du métabolisme de l'organisme, produit lors d'une réaction métabolique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for métabolite in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is métabolite, spelled M-É-T-A-B-O-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Élément du métabolisme de l'organisme, produit lors d'une réaction métabolique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how métabolite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La concentration intracellulaire de ce métabolite gouverne donc la vitesse de sa propre synthèse.
Dans le sol des cultures de choux, le fongicide chlorothalonil utilisé pour la protection contre l’hernie, est biodégradé en trois métabolites, dont seulement un (métabolite 1) est fongicide. Le sol contient donc deux produits fongicides : le chlorothalonil et son métabolite 1.
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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