nitrile
\ni.tʁil\
The verdict
“nitrile” is uncommon French (frequency #97,208 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,208
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupement chimique qui fait partie de la famille des dérivés d’acides carboxyliques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nitrile · nitrile · French
nitrile · rank #97,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,208
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neutrophiles
Nearest frequency peer: neutrophiles (-3 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 « nitrile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Neuchâteloi…
Neuchâteloise
2,799 corpus weight
- neuroscient…
neuroscientifique
2,797 corpus weight
- neutrophiles
neutrophiles
2,796 corpus weight
- nitrile
nitrile
2,793 corpus weight
- noli
noli
2,789 corpus weight
- noobs
noobs
2,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nitrile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nitrile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.tʁil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nitrile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nitrile is uncommon French at frequency #97,208 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.tʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupement chimique qui fait partie de la famille des dérivés d’acides carboxyliques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nitrile, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nitrile, spelled N-I-T-R-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Groupement chimique qui fait partie de la famille des dérivés d’acides carboxyliques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nitrile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord en polyuréthane, ce produit a ensuite été fabriqué en nitrile, un matériau moins cher, et est désormais disponible partout en Afrique.
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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