metformine
\mɛt.fɔʁ.min\
The verdict
“metformine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Antidiabétique oral de la famille des biguanides utilisé dans le traitement du diabète de type 2. On peut extraire cette substance du galéga officinal (Galega officinalis). Sa formule brute est C₄H...
Corpus desk
Index FR-metformine · metformine · French
metformine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | metformine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛt.fɔʁ.min\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “metformine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
metformine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛt.fɔʁ.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Antidiabétique oral de la famille des biguanides utilisé dans le traitement du diabète de type 2. On peut extraire cette substance du galéga officinal (Galega officinalis). Sa formule brute est C₄H...".
metformine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is metformine, spelled M-E-T-F-O-R-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Antidiabétique oral de la famille des biguanides utilisé dans le traitement du diabète de type 2. On peut extraire cette substance du galéga officinal (Galega officinalis). Sa formule brute est C₄H₁₁N5.
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