quinine
\ki.nin\
The verdict
“quinine” is uncommon French (frequency #65,440 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,440
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alcaloïde végétal extrait en particulier du quinquina jaune (Cinchona calisaya). On l'utilise ainsi que ses dérivés pour lutter contre le paludisme, l’industrie alimentaire l'’utilise aussi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quinine · quinine · French
quinine · rank #65,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,440
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH Quintin
Nearest frequency peer: Quintin (+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 « quinine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pulvar
Pulvar
34,565 corpus weight
- périra
périra
34,564 corpus weight
- pétrie
pétrie
34,563 corpus weight
- quinine
quinine
34,561 corpus weight
- Quintin
Quintin
34,560 corpus weight
- rages
rages
34,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quinine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.nin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quinine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quinine is uncommon French at frequency #65,440 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.nin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alcaloïde végétal extrait en particulier du quinquina jaune (Cinchona calisaya). On l'utilise ainsi que ses dérivés pour lutter contre le paludisme, l’industrie alimentaire l'’utilise aussi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quinine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quinine, spelled Q-U-I-N-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alcaloïde végétal extrait en particulier du quinquina jaune (Cinchona calisaya). On l'utilise ainsi que ses dérivés pour lutter contre le paludisme, l’industrie alimentaire l'’utilise aussi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quinine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Elle m’a donné une drogue et j’ai eu le délire toutes les nuits, elle disait que c’était de la quinine ; je l’aurais bien retenue, seulement la poigne m’a manqué.
La poudre de quinquina mélangée de chaux, est agitée avec des huiles lourdes de pétrole qui dissolvent la quinine.
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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