phtalates
\fta.lat\
The verdict
“phtalates” is uncommon French (frequency #73,437 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,437
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de phtalate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phtalates · phtalates · French
phtalates · rank #73,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,437
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philologique
Nearest frequency peer: philologique (-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 « phtalates »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- personnifiée
personnifiée
26,567 corpus weight
- persécutent
persécutent
26,566 corpus weight
- philologique
philologique
26,565 corpus weight
- phtalates
phtalates
26,564 corpus weight
- picorer
picorer
26,563 corpus weight
- pilons
pilons
26,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phtalates » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phtalates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fta.lat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phtalates » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phtalates is uncommon French at frequency #73,437 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fta.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de phtalate.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for phtalates in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is phtalates, spelled P-H-T-A-L-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de phtalate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phtalates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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