hiéroglyphique
^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡli.fik\
The verdict
“hiéroglyphique” is uncommon French (frequency #85,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,791
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’hiéroglyphe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hieroglyphique · hiéroglyphique · French
hiéroglyphique · rank #85,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,791
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hiératique
Nearest frequency peer: hiératique (-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 « hiéroglyphique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hiba
hiba
14,213 corpus weight
- hiératique
hiératique
14,211 corpus weight
- hiéroglyphi…
hiéroglyphique
14,210 corpus weight
- hochant
hochant
14,209 corpus weight
- holst
holst
14,208 corpus weight
- Homepage
Homepage
14,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hiéroglyphique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiéroglyphique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡli.fik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #85,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hiéroglyphique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hiéroglyphique is uncommon French at frequency #85,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡli.fik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hiéroglyphique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hiéroglyphique, spelled H-I-É-R-O-G-L-Y-P-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’hiéroglyphe.
- 2Crypté, dont le sens est obscur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hiéroglyphique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Mexique, au 1ᵉʳ siècle, la civilisation olmèque dispose d'une écriture hiéroglyphique et pictographique mais les documents sont rares et indéchiffrables.
L’écriture hiéroglyphique hittite fit l'objet de longues tentatives de déchiffrement de Pietro Merigi (1927,1937), Ignace Gelb, Émile Forrer et Théodore Bossert, qui eut la chance de trouver à Karatepe, en 1947, une stèle bilingue phénicien/hittite.
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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