élixir parégorique
\e.lik.siʁ pa.ʁe.gɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“élixir parégorique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Teinture d’opium benzoïque, contient généralement de l’anis, utilisé dans le traitement symptomatique des diarrhées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élixir parégorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lik.siʁ pa.ʁe.gɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “élixir parégorique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élixir parégorique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lik.siʁ pa.ʁe.gɔ.ʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Teinture d’opium benzoïque, contient généralement de l’anis, utilisé dans le traitement symptomatique des diarrhées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for élixir parégorique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 élixir parégorique, spelled É-L-I-X-I-R- -P-A-R-É-G-O-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
- 1Teinture d’opium benzoïque, contient généralement de l’anis, utilisé dans le traitement symptomatique des diarrhées.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-L-I-X-I-R- -P-A-R-É-G-O-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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