famélique
\fa.me.lik\
The verdict
“famélique” is uncommon French (frequency #83,862 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,862
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’a guère de quoi satisfaire sa faim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-famelique · famélique · French
famélique · rank #83,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,862
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fajitas
Nearest frequency peer: fajitas (-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 « famélique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exactly
exactly
16,144 corpus weight
- exhortations
exhortations
16,143 corpus weight
- explain
explain
16,142 corpus weight
- fajitas
fajitas
16,140 corpus weight
- famélique
famélique
16,139 corpus weight
- Farges
Farges
16,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « famélique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famélique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.me.lik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « famélique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
famélique is uncommon French at frequency #83,862 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.me.lik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
famélique has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented 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 famélique, spelled F-A-M-É-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’a guère de quoi satisfaire sa faim.
- 2Qui paraît misérable et tourmenté de la faim.
- 3Qui est faible, maigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famélique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; ce Tacherot, […], composé bizarroïde d’âmes de proie en migration constante depuis les grands loups faméliques, dont les gueules puantes claquaient dans le vide; […].
on eût dit qu’il y avait dans cette cave un de ces ogres faméliques, gigantesques héros des légendes populaires, et dont nul ne force impunément la caverne..
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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