ricine
\ʁi.sin\
The verdict
“ricine” is uncommon French (frequency #95,256 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,256
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Protéine très toxique produite par le ricin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricine · ricine · French
ricine · rank #95,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,256
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 507,453
- PHOTO-FINISH Richier
Nearest frequency peer: Richier (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ricine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- revisitées
revisitées
4,748 corpus weight
- reyne
reyne
4,747 corpus weight
- Richier
Richier
4,746 corpus weight
- ricine
ricine
4,745 corpus weight
- ritournelles
ritournelles
4,744 corpus weight
- robi
robi
4,742 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ricine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.sin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ricine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ricine is uncommon French at frequency #95,256 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Protéine très toxique produite par le ricin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ricine in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ricine, spelled R-I-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Protéine très toxique produite par le ricin.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.