erotica
\e.ʁɔ.ti.ka\
The verdict
“erotica” is uncommon French (frequency #82,007 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,007
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objets, œuvres à caractère érotique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erotica · erotica · French
erotica · rank #82,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,007
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eragon
Nearest frequency peer: eragon (-2 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 « erotica »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entonnent
entonnent
18,001 corpus weight
- entoura
entoura
18,000 corpus weight
- enzymatiques
enzymatiques
17,999 corpus weight
- eragon
eragon
17,996 corpus weight
- erotica
erotica
17,994 corpus weight
- Eurasia
Eurasia
17,988 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « erotica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erotica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁɔ.ti.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « erotica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
erotica is uncommon French at frequency #82,007 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʁɔ.ti.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Objets, œuvres à caractère érotique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for erotica, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is erotica, spelled E-R-O-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Objets, œuvres à caractère érotique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how erotica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un Octave lancé dans d’endiablées intrigues, à la Faublas, ou, dans le huis clos de l’atelier de Rops, enveloppé de la fumée d’un cigare, commentant avec verve les erotica du graveur ?
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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