phtalate
\fta.lat\
The verdict
“phtalate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - C’est le seul phtalate encore autorisé en cosmétique. — (Maëva Blanchard, Pharmaconseils pour mon bébé, 2023)
Corpus desk
Index FR-phtalate · phtalate · French
phtalate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | phtalate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fta.lat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phtalate” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
phtalate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fta.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for phtalate in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is phtalate, spelled P-H-T-A-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1C’est le seul phtalate encore autorisé en cosmétique. — (Maëva Blanchard, Pharmaconseils pour mon bébé, 2023)
- 2Composés chimiques dérivés (sels ou esters) de l’acide phtalique ; c'est à dire qu’ils sont constitués d’un noyau benzénique et de deux groupements ester placés en ortho et dont la taille de la chaîne alkyle peut varier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phtalate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il apparaît que plus la concentration en certains phtalates (de faible masse molaire) était élevée, plus les résultats obtenus lors de ces tests comportementaux et cognitifs étaient faibles.
Une étude du Food Packaging Forum (FPF) … publiée le 28 février dans la revue Packaging Technology and Science pointe certaines substances dont des phtalates, couramment utilisés pour assouplir les plastiques, et dont les effets sur certaines affections neurologiques sont redoutés. Surtout, elle souligne à quel point les règlements européens ou nationaux…
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