héliaque
French, adjective/e.ljak/
héliaque is spelled H-É-L-I-A-Q-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Héliaque is a French adjective meaning “heliacal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit du lever ou du coucher d’un astre déjà visible juste avant le lever du Soleil ou encore visible juste…”.
What does héliaque mean in English?
adjective
- 1
heliacal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit du lever ou du coucher d’un astre déjà visible juste avant le lever du Soleil ou encore visible juste après son coucher. 2. Qualifie un mouvement apparent du Soleil sur la Terre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of héliaque
- héliaques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce héliaque?
- /e.ljak/
- \e.ljak\
- [e.ljak]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is héliaque in French?
héliaque appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).