électrique
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,893
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
électrique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se rapporte à l’électricité ; qui utilise l’énergie électrique. Pronounced \e.lɛk.tʁik\. It ranks #1,893 in French word frequency. Often confused with électriques and électronique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for électrique is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lɛk.tʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,893 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for électrique, with forms such as "electrique", "léectrique", and "éelctrique". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "électriques", "électronique", "éclectique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is électrique, spelled É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à l’électricité ; qui utilise l’énergie électrique.
- 2Qualifie une personne extrêmement énergique.
- 3Qualifie des émotions aussi fortes qu’une décharge électrique.
- 4Qualifie la couleur de certaines manifestations de l’électricité. #2C75FF
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: electrique,léectrique,éelctrique,élcetrique,élecctrique,élecrtique,électirque,électriqeu,électriqque,électriuqe,électrqiue,électrrique,électtrique,életcrique,éllectrique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for électrique
Misspelling Variants of "électrique"
Frequency rank: #1,893 in French
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Nearby French words
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