hermétique
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,750
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
hermétique is anFrenchadj. It means: Fermé de manière à empêcher tout échange avec le milieu ambiant. Pronounced \ɛʁ.me.tik\. Often confused with hérétique and hérétiques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermétique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.me.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hermétique is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ.me.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,750 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for hermétique, with forms such as "ehrmétique", "hemrétique", and "hermetique". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hérétique", "hérétiques", "helvétique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hermétique, spelled H-E-R-M-É-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fermé de manière à empêcher tout échange avec le milieu ambiant.
- 2Se dit de toute fermeture parfaite, parfaitement clos.
- 3Qui a rapport à l’alchimie.
- 4Qui supporte une représentation d’Hermès.
- 5Dont le sens est impossible ou très difficile à percer, occulte.
- 6Replié sur soi, taciturne, secret, dont on ne peut percer les émotions ou les pensées.
- 7Qui ne comprend rien à quelque chose ou qui n'est pas du tout intéressé par un sujet donné.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrmétique,hemrétique,hermetique,hermmétique,hermtéique,herméitque,hermétiqeu,hermétiqque,hermétiuqe,hermétqiue,herméttique,herrmétique,herémtique,hhermétique,hremétique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hermétique
Misspelling Variants of "hermétique"
Frequency rank: #26,750 in French
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