despotique
\dɛs.pɔ.tik\
The verdict
“despotique” is uncommon French (frequency #62,192 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,192
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre au despote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-despotique · despotique · French
despotique · rank #62,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,192
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desnos
Nearest frequency peer: Desnos (-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 « despotique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyniquement
cyniquement
37,814 corpus weight
- Desnos
Desnos
37,810 corpus weight
- despotique
despotique
37,809 corpus weight
- destrier
destrier
37,808 corpus weight
- developer
developer
37,806 corpus weight
- Dianne
Dianne
37,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « despotique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despotique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.pɔ.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « despotique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
despotique is uncommon French at frequency #62,192 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.pɔ.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est propre au despote.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for despotique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is despotique, spelled D-E-S-P-O-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre au despote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how despotique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, c’est celui qui veut remplacer la loi tutélaire de la majorité par l'arbitraire tyrannique du petit nombre, faire le peuple esclave du parti & écraser la démocratie tout entière sous une despotique kakistocratie.
Passant ensuite aux détails techniques de la composition et de l’instrumentation, Liszt caractérise la manière incisive dont Wagner a rendu les attractions lascives du Venusberg : […]. « Il y a des notes qui sifflent à l’oreille comme certains regards chatoient à la vue : longues, désarmantes, perfides ! Sous le velouté de leur artificielle douceur on sai…
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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