anacréontique
\a.na.kʁe.ɔ̃.tik\
The verdict
“anacréontique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le ton, la manière des pièces d’Anacréon, en parlant d’un certain genre de poésie caractérisé par la laudation de la volupté, la légèreté et le charme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anacreontique · anacréontique · French
anacréontique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anacréontique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.na.kʁe.ɔ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
anacréontique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.na.kʁe.ɔ̃.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for anacréontique, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is anacréontique, spelled A-N-A-C-R-É-O-N-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a le ton, la manière des pièces d’Anacréon, en parlant d’un certain genre de poésie caractérisé par la laudation de la volupté, la légèreté et le charme.
- 2Qui est teinté d’une légère licence érotique.
- 3Par antiphrase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anacréontique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers anacréontiques: Vers de trois pieds et demi composés d’une forme libre sur le premier pied (iambe, un spondée, un dactyle ou un anapeste) suivi de deux iambes.
La veine anacréontique, directement introduite en 1554, et qui se prononce dès les seconds essais lyriques de Ronsard, de Du Bellay et des autres, fit véritablement transition entre la vigueur assez rude des débuts et la douceur un peu mignarde et polie des seconds disciples, Desportes et Bertaut ; cette veine servit comme de canal entre les deux.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.