noradrénaline
\nɔ.ʁa.dʁe.na.lin\
The verdict
“noradrénaline” is uncommon French (frequency #82,281 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,281
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone neuromédiatrice située dans l’hypothalamus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noradrenaline · noradrénaline · French
noradrénaline · rank #82,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,281
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH normaliens
Nearest frequency peer: normaliens (+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.
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- nominer
nominer
17,723 corpus weight
- nominées
nominées
17,722 corpus weight
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noradrénaline
17,720 corpus weight
- normaliens
normaliens
17,719 corpus weight
- notifiées
notifiées
17,718 corpus weight
- noto
noto
17,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noradrénaline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noradrénaline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.ʁa.dʁe.na.lin\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #82,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noradrénaline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noradrénaline is uncommon French at frequency #82,281 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.ʁa.dʁe.na.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone neuromédiatrice située dans l’hypothalamus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for noradrénaline in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is noradrénaline, spelled N-O-R-A-D-R-É-N-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hormone neuromédiatrice située dans l’hypothalamus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noradrénaline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La variation d’un seul acide aminé dans le gène qui code pour l’enzyme COMT, un médiateur qui métabolise la dopamine et la noradrénaline, produit une différence suffisamment importante dans cette enzyme pour modifier la résistance à la douleur et de là influer sur le courage d’une personne.
[…] ont souligné le rôle crucial des neurohormones et des neuromodulateurs, telles la dopamine et la noradrénaline, ces substances qui modulent et ajustent les transferts d’influx nerveux dans les réseaux neuronaux.
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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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