phospholipide
\fɔs.fo.li.pid\
The verdict
“phospholipide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lipide possédant un groupe phosphate soit un assemblage de deux acides gras, avec du glycérol et du phosphate, comprenant les phosphoacylglycérol (glycérophospholipide), phosphosphingolipide, phosp...
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Index FR-phospholipide · phospholipide · French
phospholipide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phospholipide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔs.fo.li.pid\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phospholipide” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
phospholipide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔs.fo.li.pid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lipide possédant un groupe phosphate soit un assemblage de deux acides gras, avec du glycérol et du phosphate, comprenant les phosphoacylglycérol (glycérophospholipide), phosphosphingolipide, phosp...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for phospholipide, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is phospholipide, spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-L-I-P-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Lipide possédant un groupe phosphate soit un assemblage de deux acides gras, avec du glycérol et du phosphate, comprenant les phosphoacylglycérol (glycérophospholipide), phosphosphingolipide, phosphonosphingolipide et phosphosaccharolipide.
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