calcique
\kal.sik\
The verdict
“calcique” is uncommon French (frequency #81,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,852
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au calcaire ou au calcium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcique · calcique · French
calcique · rank #81,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,852
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cajamarca
Nearest frequency peer: Cajamarca (-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 « calcique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cafetières
cafetières
18,152 corpus weight
- cagnard
cagnard
18,151 corpus weight
- Cajamarca
Cajamarca
18,150 corpus weight
- calcique
calcique
18,149 corpus weight
- campine
campine
18,148 corpus weight
- canson
canson
18,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calcique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kal.sik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calcique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calcique is uncommon French at frequency #81,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kal.sik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calcique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is calcique, spelled C-A-L-C-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au calcaire ou au calcium.
- 2Qui contient du calcaire ou du calcium.
- 3Qualifie un sol ou un horizon dont seuls les éléments grossiers — et pas la terre fine — contiennent du carbonate de calcium et réagissent à l’acide chlorhydrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calcique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les horizons calciques sont donc des milieux exceptionnels sur le plan chimique, favorisant une très forte biodiversité.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).