nitroglycérine
\ni.tʁɔ.ɡli.se.ʁin\
The verdict
“nitroglycérine” is uncommon French (frequency #70,884 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,884
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ester du glycérol et de l’acide nitrique de formule brute C₃H₅N₃O₉ qui se présente comme une huile jaunâtre, corrosive, extrêmement toxique et d’une grande force explosive, qui peut également avoir...
Corpus desk
Index FR-nitroglycerine · nitroglycérine · French
nitroglycérine · rank #70,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,884
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nicot
Nearest frequency peer: Nicot (-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 « nitroglycérine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neri
neri
29,120 corpus weight
- niaiseux
niaiseux
29,119 corpus weight
- Nicot
Nicot
29,118 corpus weight
- nitroglycér…
nitroglycérine
29,117 corpus weight
- nourricier
nourricier
29,115 corpus weight
- Nouvion
Nouvion
29,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nitroglycérine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nitroglycérine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.tʁɔ.ɡli.se.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #70,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nitroglycérine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nitroglycérine is uncommon French at frequency #70,884 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.tʁɔ.ɡli.se.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nitroglycérine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nitroglycérine, spelled N-I-T-R-O-G-L-Y-C-É-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ester du glycérol et de l’acide nitrique de formule brute C₃H₅N₃O₉ qui se présente comme une huile jaunâtre, corrosive, extrêmement toxique et d’une grande force explosive, qui peut également avoir un usage médical comme vasodilatateur.
- 2Utilisé pour qualifier des situations tendues, instables qui peuvent, comme le produit d’origine, exploser à tout instant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nitroglycérine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’arme par excellence des anarchistes, la dynamite, découle de la découverte de la nitroglycérine en 1846, et de sa maîtrise par Alfred Nobel en 1864.
La nitroglycérine, poursuit le gros O’Brien, en voici.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).