ritaline
\ʁi.ta.lin\
The verdict
“ritaline” is uncommon French (frequency #98,442 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,442
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commercial du méthylphénidate ou MPH, une phényléthylamine (famille des amphétamines) utilisée en pharmacie pour la fabrication de psychostimulants. Sa principale indication est le trouble du d...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ritaline · ritaline · French
ritaline · rank #98,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,442
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ripe
Nearest frequency peer: ripe (-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 « ritaline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reston
reston
1,564 corpus weight
- retentissai…
retentissaient
1,563 corpus weight
- ricanent
ricanent
1,562 corpus weight
- ripe
ripe
1,560 corpus weight
- ritaline
ritaline
1,559 corpus weight
- rorquals
rorquals
1,556 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ritaline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ritaline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ta.lin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ritaline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ritaline is uncommon French at frequency #98,442 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.ta.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom commercial du méthylphénidate ou MPH, une phényléthylamine (famille des amphétamines) utilisée en pharmacie pour la fabrication de psychostimulants. Sa principale indication est le trouble du d...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ritaline, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ritaline, spelled R-I-T-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom commercial du méthylphénidate ou MPH, une phényléthylamine (famille des amphétamines) utilisée en pharmacie pour la fabrication de psychostimulants. Sa principale indication est le trouble du déficit de l'attention avec ou sans hyperactivité (TDA/H).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ritaline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«La ritaline provoque des effets secondaires non négligeables …
Synonyms
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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