autistique

\o.tis.tik\

/\o.tis.tik\/ adj

The verdict

“autistique” is uncommon French (frequency #59,085 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,085
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de autiste.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autistique · autistique · French

autistique · rank #59,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,085
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Augereau

Nearest frequency peer: Augereau (-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 « autistique »

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 « autistique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for autistique
PropertyValue
Headwordautistique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\o.tis.tik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#59,085
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « autistique » en français

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Augereau » (#59,084), « automédication » (#59,086), « aubépine » (#59,083). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autistique » est au #59,085. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

autistique is uncommon French at frequency #59,085 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.tis.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de autiste.".

No misspelling variants are generated for autistique in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is autistique, spelled A-U-T-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de autiste.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tustin décrit parmi ces manœuvres autistiques des agrippements proprioceptifs autosensuels parmi lesquels nous rangerions l’acte compulsif de boire.
  2. Comme d’autres publications antérieures, celle-ci indique que les garçons ayant été exposés in utero à des taux élevés de bisphénol A ont un risque accru de développer un syndrome autistique, mais les chercheurs sont cette fois parvenus à mettre en lumière un mécanisme biologique susceptible d’élucider l’un des modes d’action du BPA sur le cerveau en déve…

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 "autistique"?
"autistique" is spelled A-U-T-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tis.tik\.
What does "autistique" mean?
As an adjective, "autistique" means: Variante de autiste.
How do you pronounce "autistique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autistique" is \o.tis.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list