eurêka
\ø.ʁe.ka\
The verdict
“eurêka” is uncommon French (frequency #71,505 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,505
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation proférée à l’instant où l’on trouve la solution à un problème, à une difficulté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eureka · eurêka · French
eurêka · rank #71,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,505
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eurasiatique
Nearest frequency peer: eurasiatique (-1 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 « eurêka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essuyez
essuyez
28,500 corpus weight
- estoc
estoc
28,499 corpus weight
- eurasiatique
eurasiatique
28,497 corpus weight
- eurêka
eurêka
28,496 corpus weight
- exclamer
exclamer
28,493 corpus weight
- excommunier
excommunier
28,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eurêka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eurêka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ø.ʁe.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eurêka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eurêka is uncommon French at frequency #71,505 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ø.ʁe.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exclamation proférée à l’instant où l’on trouve la solution à un problème, à une difficulté.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for eurêka, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is eurêka, spelled E-U-R-Ê-K-A.
Definition
- 1Exclamation proférée à l’instant où l’on trouve la solution à un problème, à une difficulté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eurêka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette pensée, à l'imitation de Sterne, qui a bien un peu copié Archimède, j'ai fait craquer mes doigts; j'ai jeté mon bonnet en l'air, et je me suis écrié : « Eurêka » (j'ai trouvé) !
Il se demeure, hélas ! une énigme à lui-même, Et, quel que soit le Dieu que son âme invoqua, Il n’a pu jusqu’ici, sondant le grand problème, Triomphant et joyeux s’écrier : Euréka !
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).