alambiqué
\a.lɑ̃.bi.ke\
The verdict
“alambiqué” is uncommon French (frequency #79,030 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,030
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trop subtil, trop raffiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alambique · alambiqué · French
alambiqué · rank #79,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,030
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alambics
Nearest frequency peer: alambics (-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 « alambiqué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aho
aho
20,974 corpus weight
- alambics
alambics
20,972 corpus weight
- alambiqué
alambiqué
20,971 corpus weight
- alise
alise
20,970 corpus weight
- alitée
alitée
20,969 corpus weight
- alourdissent
alourdissent
20,968 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alambiqué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alambiqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.lɑ̃.bi.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alambiqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alambiqué is uncommon French at frequency #79,030 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.lɑ̃.bi.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
alambiqué doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alambiqué, spelled A-L-A-M-B-I-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Trop subtil, trop raffiné.
- 2Tortueux, plein de contorsions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alambiqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le langage de l’Anglais dénote une connaissance approfondie du cœur et de la vie ; celui du Français brille d’un éclat léger, pimpant, éphémère ; l’Allemand rumine longtemps une phrase alambiquée dont le sens échappe à bien des gens ; […].
[…] Sébastien Chambot […] qui récolte des paquets de billets de mille avec des romans alambiqués et voluptueux, où il n’est question que de tortillements de la viande humaine saturée de cantharide.
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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