état liquide
\e.ta li.kid\
The verdict
“état liquide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État de la matière où une substance se trouve sous forme liquide : fluide (à l’inverse de l’état solide), mais dense et peu compressible (contrairement à l’état gazeux).
Corpus desk
Index FR-etat-liquide · état liquide · French
état liquide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | état liquide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ta li.kid\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “état liquide” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
état liquide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ta li.kid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de la matière où une substance se trouve sous forme liquide : fluide (à l’inverse de l’état solide), mais dense et peu compressible (contrairement à l’état gazeux).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for état liquide, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is état liquide, spelled É-T-A-T- -L-I-Q-U-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1État de la matière où une substance se trouve sous forme liquide : fluide (à l’inverse de l’état solide), mais dense et peu compressible (contrairement à l’état gazeux).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how état liquide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fusion est le changement d’état correspondant au passage de l’état solide à l’état liquide.
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