quinine de Cayenne

\ki.nin də ka.jɛn\

/\ki.nin də ka.jɛn\/ noun

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.

Key facts for quinine de Cayenne
PropertyValue
Headwordquinine de Cayenne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ki.nin də ka.jɛn\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “quinine de Cayenne” sits in French frequency

quinine de Cayenne falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom vernaculaire de Quassia amara, arbre de la famille des Simaroubacées (Simaroubaceae)), connu pour contenir une substance antipaludéenne, la simalikalactone.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quinine de Cayenne"?
"quinine de Cayenne" is spelled Q-U-I-N-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-A-Y-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ki.nin də ka.jɛn\.
What does "quinine de Cayenne" mean?
As a noun, "quinine de Cayenne" means: Nom vernaculaire de Quassia amara, arbre de la famille des Simaroubacées (Simaroubaceae)), connu pour contenir une substance antipaludéenne, la simalikalactone.
How do you pronounce "quinine de Cayenne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quinine de Cayenne" is \ki.nin də ka.jɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “quinine de Cayenne”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \ki.nin də ka.jɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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