gnostique
\ɡnɔs.tik\
The verdict
“gnostique” is uncommon French (frequency #60,826 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,826
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est relatif à la gnose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gnostique · gnostique · French
gnostique · rank #60,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,826
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gnagnagna
Nearest frequency peer: gnagnagna (-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 « gnostique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Glucksmann
Glucksmann
39,178 corpus weight
- glycine
glycine
39,177 corpus weight
- gnagnagna
gnagnagna
39,176 corpus weight
- gnostique
gnostique
39,175 corpus weight
- gobi
gobi
39,174 corpus weight
- Goetz
Goetz
39,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gnostique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gnostique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡnɔs.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gnostique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gnostique is uncommon French at frequency #60,826 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡnɔs.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gnostique has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gnostique, spelled G-N-O-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est relatif à la gnose.
- 2Qui est relatif au gnosticisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gnostique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les sectes gnostiques, en particulier le manichéisme des premiers siècles, le monde matériel est une prison diabolique où l’âme divine de chacun d’entre nous a chuté.
Sous l’appellation « lucifériens » sont parfois classés certains ordres gnostiques contemporains, et quelques ordres martinistes (certaines pratiques et/ou perspectives symboliques peuvent faire le jeu de l’émancipation luciférienne, sans pour autant tomber dans un culte du démon).
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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