prolactine
\pʁɔ.lak.tin\
The verdict
“prolactine” is uncommon French (frequency #99,508 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,508
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone produite par l’hypophyse, qui intervient en particulier dans la lactation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolactine · prolactine · French
prolactine · rank #99,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,508
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prohibant
Nearest frequency peer: prohibant (-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 « prolactine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procurerait
procurerait
496 corpus weight
- procureront
procureront
495 corpus weight
- prohibant
prohibant
494 corpus weight
- prolactine
prolactine
493 corpus weight
- promulgua
promulgua
492 corpus weight
- proposions
proposions
490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prolactine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolactine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lak.tin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prolactine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prolactine is uncommon French at frequency #99,508 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.lak.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone produite par l’hypophyse, qui intervient en particulier dans la lactation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prolactine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 prolactine, spelled P-R-O-L-A-C-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hormone produite par l’hypophyse, qui intervient en particulier dans la lactation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolactine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prolactine joue un rôle essentiel dans la lactogenèse, chez toutes les espèces.
Au fur et à mesure de la grossesse, le taux de prolactine augmente pour être maximal en fin de gestation.
Synonyms
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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