analgésique

\a.nal.ʒe.zik\

/\a.nal.ʒe.zik\/ adj

The verdict

“analgésique” is uncommon French (frequency #55,736 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,736
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit l’analgésie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-analgesique · analgésique · French

analgésique · rank #55,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,736
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH América

Nearest frequency peer: América (-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 « analgésique »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « analgésique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for analgésique
PropertyValue
Headwordanalgésique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.nal.ʒe.zik\
Letters11
Frequency rank#55,736
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « analgésique » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.analgésiquetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « América » (#55,735), « Andenne » (#55,737), « americana » (#55,734). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « analgésique » est au #55,736. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

analgésique is uncommon French at frequency #55,736 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.nal.ʒe.zik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui produit l’analgésie.".

No misspelling variants are generated for analgésique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is analgésique, spelled A-N-A-L-G-É-S-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui produit l’analgésie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Lorsque ce bilan est rapide et la lésion causale facilement accessible ( pulpite, desmodontite… ) celle-ci n’appelle qu’une thérapeutique locale. Dans un cas contraire la thérapeutique analgésique est habituellement inévitable.

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); 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 "analgésique"?
"analgésique" is spelled A-N-A-L-G-É-S-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.nal.ʒe.zik\.
What does "analgésique" mean?
As an adjective, "analgésique" means: Qui produit l’analgésie.
How do you pronounce "analgésique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "analgésique" is \a.nal.ʒe.zik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "analgésique" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list