cryogénique
\kʁi.jo.ʒe.nik\
The verdict
“cryogénique” is uncommon French (frequency #73,873 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,873
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la cryogénie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cryogenique · cryogénique · French
cryogénique · rank #73,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,873
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crucifiés
Nearest frequency peer: crucifiés (-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 « cryogénique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cronos
Cronos
26,131 corpus weight
- crucifiés
crucifiés
26,129 corpus weight
- cryogénique
cryogénique
26,128 corpus weight
- crypter
crypter
26,127 corpus weight
- CTT
CTT
26,126 corpus weight
- cuillers
cuillers
26,125 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cryogénique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cryogénique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.jo.ʒe.nik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cryogénique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cryogénique is uncommon French at frequency #73,873 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁi.jo.ʒe.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la cryogénie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cryogénique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cryogénique, spelled C-R-Y-O-G-É-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la cryogénie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cryogénique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se tourna vers Alvare, la jeune femme qui l'accompagnait, responsable scientifique de la mission, spécialiste en exobiologie et terraformation. Une belle femme brune d'ailleurs, qui, les derniers temps du voyage, n'était jamais sortie de sa réserve glaciale, comme si son cerveau et son corps n'étaient pas parvenus à se remettre de la stase cryogénique.
Le principe est connu mais reste à mettre au point pour des liquides cryogéniques, c'est-à-dire l'hydrogène et l'oxygène liquides.
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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