propylène
\pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\
The verdict
“propylène” is uncommon French (frequency #67,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,795
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydrocarbure insaturé, gazeux de formule semi-développée CH₂ = CH – CH₃, obtenu en décomposant la glycérine par l’iodure de phosphore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propylene · propylène · French
propylène · rank #67,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,795
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propagandes
Nearest frequency peer: propagandes (-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 « propylène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prodigieuse…
prodigieusement
32,209 corpus weight
- propagandes
propagandes
32,207 corpus weight
- propylène
propylène
32,206 corpus weight
- prosodie
prosodie
32,205 corpus weight
- protoxyde
protoxyde
32,204 corpus weight
- prunelles
prunelles
32,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « propylène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | propylène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « propylène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
propylène is uncommon French at frequency #67,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hydrocarbure insaturé, gazeux de formule semi-développée CH₂ = CH – CH₃, obtenu en décomposant la glycérine par l’iodure de phosphore.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for propylène, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is propylène, spelled P-R-O-P-Y-L-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hydrocarbure insaturé, gazeux de formule semi-développée CH₂ = CH – CH₃, obtenu en décomposant la glycérine par l’iodure de phosphore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how propylène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plus grande part (environ 60 %) du propylène est polymérisée en polypropylène mais le propylène peut aussi servir d’intermédiaire dans différentes synthèses.
Synonyms
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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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