despotique
French, adjective/dɛs.pɔ.tik/
despotique is spelled D-E-S-P-O-T-I-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despotique is a French adjective meaning “despotic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est propre au despote”.
What does despotique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
despotic
Near-synonym: tyrannique
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est propre au despote.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of despotique
- despotiques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despotique?
- /dɛs.pɔ.tik/
- \dɛs.pɔ.tik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to despotique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is despotique in French?
despotique appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).