politique
/ˈpɒlətɪk/
"politique" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“politique” is uncommon English (frequency #57,641 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,641
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-politique · politique · English
politique · rank #57,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,641
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pollinate
Nearest frequency peer: pollinate (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “politique”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- planed
planed
42,366 corpus weight
- poetically
poetically
42,362 corpus weight
- politique
politique
42,360 corpus weight
- pollinate
pollinate
42,359 corpus weight
- polymorphic
polymorphic
42,358 corpus weight
- professorial
professorial
42,355 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “politique” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | politique |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɒlətɪk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “politique” in English
Rare enough to double-check
politique is uncommon English at frequency #57,641 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɒlətɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for politique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French politique, from Latin politicus. Doublet of politic. The correct English form is politique, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how politique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Modern historical assessments of Cecil have veered from that of the cynical, secular politique to the image of the committed Protestant ideologue […]
Etymology
From French politique, from Latin politicus. Doublet of politic.
Synonyms
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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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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