cœliaque
\se.ljak\
The verdict
“cœliaque” is uncommon French (frequency #77,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,402
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux intestins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-c-liaque · cœliaque · French
cœliaque · rank #77,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,402
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cyrielle
Nearest frequency peer: Cyrielle (-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 « cœliaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Currie
Currie
22,602 corpus weight
- curse
curse
22,601 corpus weight
- Cyrielle
Cyrielle
22,600 corpus weight
- cœliaque
cœliaque
22,599 corpus weight
- dahir
dahir
22,597 corpus weight
- damiers
damiers
22,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cœliaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cœliaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.ljak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cœliaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cœliaque is uncommon French at frequency #77,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.ljak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport aux intestins.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cœliaque, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is cœliaque, spelled C-Œ-L-I-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux intestins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cœliaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Artère cœliaque.
L’éviction du gluten, présent naturellement dans le blé, le seigle, l’orge ou encore l’avoine, est une obligation pour les personnes allergiques ou intolérantes, autrement dit atteintes de la maladie cœliaque, soit 1 % de la population française.
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.
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