tyrosine
\ti.ʁɔ.zin\
The verdict
“tyrosine” is uncommon French (frequency #77,112 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,112
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acide aminé dont la chaîne latérale est (-CH₂-C₆H₄-OH).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tyrosine · tyrosine · French
tyrosine · rank #77,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,112
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tyrannosaure
Nearest frequency peer: tyrannosaure (-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 « tyrosine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tuvalu
Tuvalu
22,892 corpus weight
- tyranniques
tyranniques
22,891 corpus weight
- tyrannosaure
tyrannosaure
22,890 corpus weight
- tyrosine
tyrosine
22,889 corpus weight
- tâchera
tâchera
22,888 corpus weight
- télépathe
télépathe
22,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tyrosine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tyrosine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁɔ.zin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tyrosine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tyrosine is uncommon French at frequency #77,112 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.ʁɔ.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acide aminé dont la chaîne latérale est (-CH₂-C₆H₄-OH).".
Zero misspellings are on record for tyrosine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tyrosine, spelled T-Y-R-O-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Acide aminé dont la chaîne latérale est (-CH₂-C₆H₄-OH).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tyrosine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Traitées par des acides dilués en ébullition elles donnent de l'urée et des corps à fonction amine et acides (amino-acides) tel que le glycocolle CH₂AzH₂.CO₂H, la tyrosine amino-acide aromatique, etc.
Il constate la présence d’une molécule de tyrosine (C₉H11AzO₃), et de toute la série homologue des sucres de gélatine, depuis la leucine (C₆H₁₃AzO₂), jusqu’à l’alanine (C₃H₇AzO₂) ; tous à base d’acide gras.
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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