publique
"publique" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“publique” is uncommon English (frequency #81,726 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,726
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of public.
Corpus desk
Index EN-publique · publique · English
publique · rank #81,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Prudhomme
Nearest frequency peer: Prudhomme (-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 “publique”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Provençal
Provençal
18,277 corpus weight
- Prudhomme
Prudhomme
18,276 corpus weight
- publique
publique
18,275 corpus weight
- punchbowl
punchbowl
18,272 corpus weight
- Purley
Purley
18,271 corpus weight
- Pusey
Pusey
18,270 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “publique” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | publique |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “publique” in English
Rare enough to double-check
publique is uncommon English at frequency #81,726 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of public.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for publique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is publique, spelled P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how publique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I meruailled, why himſelf [Niccolò Leoniceno] did not practiſe Phiſike of whiche facultee he was a Doctour, and a publique reader: I auaile moche more, ſaieth he, in that I teach all thother Phiſiciãs [physicians].
VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
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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