spiruline
\spi.ʁy.lin\
The verdict
“spiruline” is uncommon French (frequency #65,536 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de deux genres différents de cyanobactéries filamenteuses (Arthrospira, exploité commercialement et alimentaire ; Spirulina, inexploité et sans intérêt alimentaire relevé).
Corpus desk
Index FR-spiruline · spiruline · French
spiruline · rank #65,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,536
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Speer
Nearest frequency peer: Speer (-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 « spiruline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soutiré
soutiré
34,468 corpus weight
- spade
spade
34,467 corpus weight
- Speer
Speer
34,466 corpus weight
- spiruline
spiruline
34,465 corpus weight
- SPL
SPL
34,464 corpus weight
- spoliés
spoliés
34,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spiruline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spiruline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spi.ʁy.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spiruline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spiruline is uncommon French at frequency #65,536 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spi.ʁy.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for spiruline, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is spiruline, spelled S-P-I-R-U-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de deux genres différents de cyanobactéries filamenteuses (Arthrospira, exploité commercialement et alimentaire ; Spirulina, inexploité et sans intérêt alimentaire relevé).
- 2Aliment, ingrédient alimentaire ou complément alimentaire tiré des cyanobactéries du genre Arthrospira.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spiruline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La spiruline est une micro-algue riche en protéine, fer, acides aminés, chlorophylle…
La spiruline, micro-algue d’eau douce, pousse de façon naturelle dans les eaux chaudes de lacs en Inde, au Tchad, au Mexique et est de plus en plus produite en Bretagne.
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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