tryptophane
\tʁip.to.fan\
The verdict
“tryptophane” is uncommon French (frequency #89,270 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,270
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acide aminé essentiel contenant un hétérocycle indole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tryptophane · tryptophane · French
tryptophane · rank #89,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,270
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TTL
Nearest frequency peer: TTL (+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 « tryptophane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tromperait
tromperait
10,733 corpus weight
- tryptophane
tryptophane
10,731 corpus weight
- TTL
TTL
10,730 corpus weight
- tumoral
tumoral
10,729 corpus weight
- tuned
tuned
10,728 corpus weight
- télémètre
télémètre
10,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tryptophane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tryptophane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁip.to.fan\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tryptophane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tryptophane is uncommon French at frequency #89,270 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁip.to.fan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acide aminé essentiel contenant un hétérocycle indole.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tryptophane, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tryptophane, spelled T-R-Y-P-T-O-P-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Acide aminé essentiel contenant un hétérocycle indole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tryptophane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les protéines, en particulier trois des huit acides aminés essentiels (la lysine, la méthionine et le tryptophane), sont contenues en belle quantité dans le jaune d’œuf et les poissons gras (sardine, anchois, hareng…), en priorité, puis les volailles sans leur peau, les viandes maigres, les céréales complètes et les légumes secs, ainsi que les yaourts nat…
Parmi elles, certaines [bactéries] participent à la synthèse d’acides aminés essentiels, tels le tryptophane et la phénylalanine, mais aucune voie métabolique n’est complète.
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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