monoxyde de carbone
\mɔ.nɔk.sid də kaʁ.bɔn\
The verdict
“monoxyde de carbone” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme la plus réduite de la combinaison entre le carbone et l’oxygène ; de formule chimique CO.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monoxyde de carbone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɔk.sid də kaʁ.bɔn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “monoxyde de carbone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monoxyde de carbone is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.nɔk.sid də kaʁ.bɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forme la plus réduite de la combinaison entre le carbone et l’oxygène ; de formule chimique CO.".
No misspelling variants are generated for monoxyde de carbone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is monoxyde de carbone, spelled M-O-N-O-X-Y-D-E- -D-E- -C-A-R-B-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme la plus réduite de la combinaison entre le carbone et l’oxygène ; de formule chimique CO.
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