hippocratique
\i.pɔ.kʁa.tik\
The verdict
“hippocratique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Hippocrate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hippocratique · hippocratique · French
hippocratique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hippocratique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.pɔ.kʁa.tik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hippocratique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.pɔ.kʁa.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hippocratique 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hippocratique, spelled H-I-P-P-O-C-R-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Hippocrate.
- 2Médical, propre aux médecins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hippocratique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rencontre entre l’histoire de la Révolution et la géographie de l’Ancien Régime se révèle imprévisible. Vacille alors la confiance si longtemps accordée à la théorie hippocratique qui liait les usages et les mœurs aux caractéristiques du sol et du climat.
L'importance d’Hippocrate et du Corpus hippocratique ne saurait être surestimée car l’œuvre du Maître de Cos fut objet d'enseignement médical jusqu'au milieu du XIX^(ème) siècle avant de devenir objet d'histoire.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.