chamanique
\ʃa.ma.nik\
The verdict
“chamanique” is uncommon French (frequency #80,036 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,036
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux chamans et au chamanisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamanique · chamanique · French
chamanique · rank #80,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,036
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chamallow
Nearest frequency peer: chamallow (-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 « chamanique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cazal
Cazal
19,969 corpus weight
- chamallow
chamallow
19,966 corpus weight
- chamanique
chamanique
19,965 corpus weight
- Chemnitz
Chemnitz
19,964 corpus weight
- Cheyennes
Cheyennes
19,963 corpus weight
- choke
choke
19,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamanique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamanique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃa.ma.nik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamanique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamanique is uncommon French at frequency #80,036 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃa.ma.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux chamans et au chamanisme.".
chamanique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chamanique, spelled C-H-A-M-A-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux chamans et au chamanisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamanique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rituels chamaniques.
Il se trouve que la ventriloquie, la glossolalie, le fait de parler les langues des animaux, le fait de simplement parler « en langues », ne caractérisent qu’un membre du couple chamanique. Georges Charachidzé rapporte que les Géorgiens du Caucase nomment celui qui parle dans la transe le « linguiste », tandis qu’ils appellent celui dont la possession est…
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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