protéinase
\pʁɔ.te.i.naz\
The verdict
“protéinase” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enzyme qui lyse une grosse protéine, une albumine ou une globuline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proteinase · protéinase · French
protéinase · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | protéinase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.i.naz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
protéinase is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.te.i.naz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enzyme qui lyse une grosse protéine, une albumine ou une globuline.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for protéinase, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is protéinase, spelled P-R-O-T-É-I-N-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Enzyme qui lyse une grosse protéine, une albumine ou une globuline.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protéinase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cathepsine est une protéinase lysosomiale qui joue un rôle important dans la dégradation des protéines issues de l’endocytose, dans le recyclage cellulaire et dans la préparation des antigènes qui seront présentés par les protéines HLA.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.