état liquide

\e.ta li.kid\

/\e.ta li.kid\/ noun

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.

Key facts for état liquide
PropertyValue
Headwordétat liquide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ta li.kid\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “état liquide” sits in French frequency

état liquide falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how état liquide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La fusion est le changement d’état correspondant au passage de l’état solide à l’état liquide.

Antonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "état liquide"?
"état liquide" is spelled É-T-A-T- -L-I-Q-U-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ta li.kid\.
What does "état liquide" mean?
As a noun, "état liquide" means: 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).
How do you pronounce "état liquide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "état liquide" is \e.ta li.kid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "état liquide" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list