méthylène
\me.ti.lɛn\
The verdict
“méthylène” is uncommon French (frequency #82,262 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,262
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe fonctionnel divalent : — CH₂ —.
Corpus desk
Index FR-methylene · méthylène · French
méthylène · rank #82,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,262
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métabolite
Nearest frequency peer: métabolite (-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 « méthylène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- narcotrafic
narcotrafic
17,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méthylène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méthylène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ti.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méthylène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méthylène is uncommon French at frequency #82,262 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ti.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
méthylène doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 méthylène, spelled M-É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe fonctionnel divalent : — CH₂ —.
- 2Groupe fonctionnel divalent = CH₂.
- 3Carbène :CH₂ (métastable).
- 4Méthanol, alcool méthylique (CH₃OH).
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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