attique

/\a.tik\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#32,690

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

attique is anFrenchadj. It means: Propre à l’Attique ou, en particulier, à Athènes durant l’Antiquité Pronounced \a.tik\. Often confused with attiré and attise.

Key facts for attique
PropertyValue
Headwordattique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.tik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#32,690
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of attique in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for attique is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,690 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for attique, with forms such as "atique", "atitque", and "attiqeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "attiré", "attise", "attirée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is attique, spelled A-T-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propre à l’Attique ou, en particulier, à Athènes durant l’Antiquité
  2. 2
    Qui est fin, délicat, par allusion à la délicatesse et à la finesse du goût athénien.
  3. 3
    Écrivain élégant et distingué.
  4. 4
    Qui consiste en pilastres raccourcis proportionnellement à l’étage qu’ils décorent et qui porte lui-même le nom d’étage attique ou, par ellipse, d’attique.
  5. 5
    Qualifie l’étage placé au sommet ou au milieu d’un édifice, de proportions moindres que les étages supérieurs ou inférieurs, séparé par une corniche du reste de la construction.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atique,atitque,attiqeu,attiqque,attiuqe,attqiue,tatique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attique

Misspelling Variants of "attique"

atique6atitque7attiqeu7attiqque8attiuqe7attqiue7tatique7
Misspelling Variants of "attique"

Frequency rank: #32,690 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attique"?
"attique" is spelled A-T-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tik\.
What does "attique" mean?
As an adj, "attique" means: Propre à l’Attique ou, en particulier, à Athènes durant l’Antiquité
What words are commonly confused with "attique"?
"attique" is commonly confused with "attiré", "attise", "attirée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attique" is \a.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attique" come from?
"attique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.