sertraline
\sɛʁ.tʁa.lin\
The verdict
“sertraline” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médicament psychotrope utilisé pour guérir les cas d'épisodes dépressifs majeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sertraline · sertraline · French
sertraline · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sertraline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.tʁa.lin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sertraline is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.tʁa.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médicament psychotrope utilisé pour guérir les cas d'épisodes dépressifs majeurs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sertraline in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sertraline, spelled S-E-R-T-R-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Médicament psychotrope utilisé pour guérir les cas d'épisodes dépressifs majeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sertraline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sertraline est un inhibiteur de la recapture de la sérotonine (5-HT). Elle est pratiquement dépourvue d'effet direct sur la recapture de la noradrénaline (NA), de la dopamine (DA) et de l'acide gamma aminobutyrique (GABA).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.