critiquable
\kʁi.ti.kabl\
The verdict
“critiquable” is uncommon French (frequency #51,993 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,993
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être justement critiqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-critiquable · critiquable · French
critiquable · rank #51,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,993
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cristalliser
Nearest frequency peer: cristalliser (-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 « critiquable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crase
crase
48,011 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
48,010 corpus weight
- cristalliser
cristalliser
48,009 corpus weight
- critiquable
critiquable
48,008 corpus weight
- créditer
créditer
48,007 corpus weight
- crétois
crétois
48,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « critiquable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critiquable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.ti.kabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « critiquable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
critiquable is uncommon French at frequency #51,993 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁi.ti.kabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for critiquable, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is critiquable, spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être justement critiqué.
- 2Qui mérite d’être critiqué, pour lequel on a des objections.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how critiquable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les meilleurs ouvrages sont critiquables.
Je suis surpris du peu d’estime qu’on fait icy du Dictionnaire Critique de M. Bayle : On pretend qu’il est tombé dans beaucoup d’absurditez, qu’il est aussi critiquable que les Auteurs qu’il a critiquez.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).