heuristique
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,885
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
heuristique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Art d’inventer, de faire des découvertes. Pronounced \ø.ʁis.tik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heuristique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ø.ʁis.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for heuristique is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ø.ʁis.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,885 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for heuristique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 heuristique, spelled H-E-U-R-I-S-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
- 1Art d’inventer, de faire des découvertes.
- 2Art de repérer de manière exhaustive toute la documentation relative à un sujet d’étude.
- 3Discipline qui se propose de dégager les règles de la recherche scientifique et de la découverte.
- 4Suite d'opérations mentales simples conduisant à une prise de décision rapide, ou à l’estimation d’un risque par exemple.
- 5Méthode de résolution de problèmes non fondée sur un modèle formel et qui n’aboutit pas nécessairement à une solution optimale.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #50,885 in French
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