gaélique
\ɡa.e.lik\
The verdict
“gaélique” is uncommon French (frequency #50,852 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,852
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Gaëls, habitants du nord de l’Écosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaelique · gaélique · French
gaélique · rank #50,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,852
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genoa
Nearest frequency peer: genoa (+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 « gaélique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- funambule
funambule
49,152 corpus weight
- galeriste
galeriste
49,151 corpus weight
- gaélique
gaélique
49,149 corpus weight
- genoa
genoa
49,148 corpus weight
- Gesellschaft
Gesellschaft
49,147 corpus weight
- geôliers
geôliers
49,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gaélique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaélique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡa.e.lik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gaélique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gaélique is uncommon French at frequency #50,852 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡa.e.lik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gaélique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gaélique, spelled G-A-É-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Gaëls, habitants du nord de l’Écosse.
- 2En rapport avec les langues et la culture celtique d’Irlande et d’Écosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaélique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne suffisait plus que l’ouvrage pût être de quelque utilité aux lettrés bretons et aux indogermanistes de tout pays ; il fallait, de plus, qu’il fût de consultation commode pour ceux-là mêmes à qui il n’enseignerait rien, pour les celtisants de profession. J’ai donc dû multiplier et préciser les références, soit corniques et cymriques, soit irlandaises…
Un vieux chant gaélique.
Synonyms
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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