taurine
\to.ʁin\
The verdict
“taurine” is uncommon French (frequency #71,953 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,953
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dérivé d’acide aminé soufré de formule brute C₂H₇NO₃S utilisé dans certaines boissons énergisantes en complément de la caféine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taurine · taurine · French
taurine · rank #71,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taoïsme
Nearest frequency peer: taoïsme (-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 « taurine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taillandier
taillandier
28,052 corpus weight
- tantrique
tantrique
28,050 corpus weight
- taoïsme
taoïsme
28,049 corpus weight
- taurine
taurine
28,048 corpus weight
- teg
teg
28,045 corpus weight
- tei
tei
28,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taurine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taurine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taurine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taurine is uncommon French at frequency #71,953 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \to.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dérivé d’acide aminé soufré de formule brute C₂H₇NO₃S utilisé dans certaines boissons énergisantes en complément de la caféine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for taurine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is taurine, spelled T-A-U-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dérivé d’acide aminé soufré de formule brute C₂H₇NO₃S utilisé dans certaines boissons énergisantes en complément de la caféine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taurine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les industriels se sont acharnés, à coups de tests sur des cohortes de rats, à démontrer que les boissons énergisantes enrichies en substances excitantes comme la caféine, la taurine ou le glucuronolactone étaient inoffensives.
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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