cadavérique
\ka.da.ve.ʁik\
The verdict
“cadavérique” is uncommon French (frequency #67,351 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,351
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un cadavre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadaverique · cadavérique · French
cadavérique · rank #67,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,351
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachais
Nearest frequency peer: cachais (-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 « cadavérique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bûchers
bûchers
32,653 corpus weight
- cabre
cabre
32,652 corpus weight
- cachais
cachais
32,651 corpus weight
- cadavérique
cadavérique
32,650 corpus weight
- Cagliostro
Cagliostro
32,649 corpus weight
- caillouteux
caillouteux
32,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cadavérique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadavérique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.da.ve.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cadavérique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cadavérique is uncommon French at frequency #67,351 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.da.ve.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cadavérique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cadavérique, spelled C-A-D-A-V-É-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à un cadavre.
- 2Qui a l’aspect d’un cadavre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadavérique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autopsie cadavérique.
Elle avait brûlé deux cierges bénits, […], lorsqu’enfin le flux glaireux et nauséabond s'alentit, l'odeur fade devint moins pénétrante, plus lentement, le petit visage quitta son masque cadavérique.
Synonyms
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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