quinine de Cayenne
\ki.nin də ka.jɛn\
The verdict
“quinine de Cayenne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom vernaculaire de Quassia amara, arbre de la famille des Simaroubacées (Simaroubaceae)), connu pour contenir une substance antipaludéenne, la simalikalactone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinine de Cayenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.nin də ka.jɛn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quinine de Cayenne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quinine de Cayenne is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.nin də ka.jɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vernaculaire de Quassia amara, arbre de la famille des Simaroubacées (Simaroubaceae)), connu pour contenir une substance antipaludéenne, la simalikalactone.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quinine de Cayenne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quinine de Cayenne, spelled Q-U-I-N-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-A-Y-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Quassia amara, arbre de la famille des Simaroubacées (Simaroubaceae)), connu pour contenir une substance antipaludéenne, la simalikalactone.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I-N-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-A-Y-E-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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