détritique
French, adjective/de.tʁi.tik/
détritique is spelled D-É-T-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détritique is a French adjective meaning “detrital” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se compose de grains issus de l’érosion d’autres roches”.
What does détritique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
detrital
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se compose de grains issus de l’érosion d’autres roches.
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 détritique
- détritiques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détritique?
- /de.tʁi.tik/
- \de.tʁi.tik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is détritique in French?
détritique appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).