ésotérique
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,826
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ésotérique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se fait à l’intérieur de l’école, en parlant de la doctrine que certains philosophes de l’antiquité ne communiquaient qu’à un petit nombre de disciples. Pronounced \e.zɔ.te.ʁik\. Often confused with ésotérisme and ésotériques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ésotérique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.zɔ.te.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ésotérique is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.zɔ.te.ʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,826 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ésotérique, with forms such as "esoterique", "séotérique", and "éostérique". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ésotérisme", "ésotériques", 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 ésotérique, spelled É-S-O-T-É-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 fait à l’intérieur de l’école, en parlant de la doctrine que certains philosophes de l’antiquité ne communiquaient qu’à un petit nombre de disciples.
- 2Qui n’est pas accessible aux non-initiés.
- 3Incompréhensible, obscur, difficile à comprendre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esoterique,séotérique,éostérique,ésotréique,ésottérique,ésotéirque,ésotériqeu,ésotériqque,ésotériuqe,ésotérqiue,ésotérrique,ésoétrique,éssotérique,éstoérique
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Misspelling Variants of "ésotérique"
Frequency rank: #34,826 in French
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