elfique
\ɛl.fik\
The verdict
“elfique” is uncommon French (frequency #61,494 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,494
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux elfes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elfique · elfique · French
elfique · rank #61,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,494
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emballées
Nearest frequency peer: emballées (+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 « elfique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effrayait
effrayait
38,511 corpus weight
- elementary
elementary
38,509 corpus weight
- elfique
elfique
38,507 corpus weight
- emballées
emballées
38,506 corpus weight
- emboîte
emboîte
38,505 corpus weight
- emphysème
emphysème
38,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elfique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elfique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛl.fik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elfique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elfique is uncommon French at frequency #61,494 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛl.fik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux elfes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for elfique, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is elfique, spelled E-L-F-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux elfes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how elfique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Il n’y a pas grand chose, dit Merry. Nous avons décampé sans rien d’autre que deux maigres paquets de lembas, abandonnant tout derrière nous. (Ils regardèrent ce qu’il restait des gâteaux elfiques : des fragments pour cinq jours chiches, c’était tout.) Et pas un manteau ni une couverture, dit Merry. Nous aurons froid cette nuit, de quelque côté que nous…
Rajna ne savait probablement pas que les elfes sont mentionnés deux fois dans Karel ende Elegast : au v.775 (Elegast se demande si ce n'est pas un alfs gedrochte « esprit elfique » qui l’induit en erreur) et au v. 876 (la femme d’Eggeric lui demande si des alven le tourmentent).
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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