ribosome
\ʁi.bo.zom\
The verdict
“ribosome” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécule synthétisant des protéines à partir de l’ARN messager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ribosome · ribosome · French
ribosome · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | ribosome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.bo.zom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ribosome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ribosome is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.bo.zom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Molécule synthétisant des protéines à partir de l’ARN messager.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ribosome, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ribosome, spelled R-I-B-O-S-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Molécule synthétisant des protéines à partir de l’ARN messager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ribosome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ribosome est un complexe ribonucléoprotéique composé de deux sous-unités distinctes: la grande et la petite.
This word in other languages
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