alcoolique

\al.kɔ.lik\

/\al.kɔ.lik\/ adj

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The verdict

“alcoolique” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,628
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient de l’alcool.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alcoolique · alcoolique · French

alcoolique · rank #10,628 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,628
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adorent

Nearest frequency peer: adorent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « alcoolique »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « alcoolique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

alcoolique vs alcoolisé
70% similar
alcoolique vs alcoolisme
80% similar
alcoolique vs alcoolisée
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for alcoolique
PropertyValue
Headwordalcoolique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\al.kɔ.lik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#10,628
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alcoolique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.alcooliquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adorent » (#10,627), « amer » (#10,629), « Adams » (#10,626). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « alcoolique » est au #10,628. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around alcoolique (IPA \al.kɔ.lik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,628 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcoolique, with forms such as "acloolique", "alccoolique", and "alcolique". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alcoolisé", "alcoolisme", "alcoolisée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is alcoolique, spelled A-L-C-O-O-L-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui contient de l’alcool.
  2. 2
    Relatif à l’alcool.
  3. 3
    Qui fait abus des boissons alcoolisées.
  4. 4
    Qui est dû à l’alcool.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how alcoolique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] il allait procéder à la confection du punch. […]. Il n’y avait plus qu’à enflammer ce lac alcoolique, et le caporal, la mèche allumée, attendait l’ordre de son capitaine, comme s’il se fût agi de mettre le feu à une mine.
  2. L’essai d’un alcool doit porter tout d’abord sur le degré alcoolique qui est déterminé au moyen de l’alcoomètre de Gay-Lussac.

This word in other languages

alcoholic(English)alcohólico(Español)alkoholhaltig(Deutsch)alcoólico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acloolique
  • alccoolique
  • alcolique
  • alcoloique
  • alcooilque
  • alcooliqeu
  • alcooliqque
  • alcooliuqe
  • alcoollique
  • alcoolqiue
  • allcoolique
  • alocolique
  • lacoolique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcoolique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acloolique2alccoolique1alcolique1alcoloique2alcooilque2alcooliqeu2alcooliqque1alcooliuqe2
Edit distance from "alcoolique"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alcoolique"?
"alcoolique" is spelled A-L-C-O-O-L-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \al.kɔ.lik\.
What does "alcoolique" mean?
As an adjective, "alcoolique" means: Qui contient de l’alcool.
What words are commonly confused with "alcoolique"?
"alcoolique" is commonly confused with "alcoolisé", "alcoolisme", "alcoolisée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "alcoolique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alcoolique" is \al.kɔ.lik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alcoolique" come from?
"alcoolique" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alcoolique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list