homérique
\ɔ.me.ʁik\
The verdict
“homérique” is uncommon French (frequency #59,348 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,348
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à Homère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homerique · homérique · French
homérique · rank #59,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,348
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homonymie
Nearest frequency peer: homonymie (-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 « homérique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern
40,656 corpus weight
- hol
hol
40,655 corpus weight
- homonymie
homonymie
40,654 corpus weight
- homérique
homérique
40,653 corpus weight
- honoris
honoris
40,652 corpus weight
- hospitalisé…
hospitalisées
40,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « homérique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homérique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.me.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « homérique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
homérique is uncommon French at frequency #59,348 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.me.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for homérique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is homérique, spelled H-O-M-É-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à Homère.
- 2Qui appartient à Homère.
- 3Qui appartient à Homère.
- 4Qualifie une situation digne des épisodes décrits par Homère.
- 5Qualifie un rire bruyant et de bon cœur, ainsi appelé à cause d’une scène du premier livre de l’Iliade, où les dieux éclatent de rire en voyant la démarche boiteuse d’Héphaïstos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homérique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs... ce serait sensationnel si je mourais quand même à Pendragon. La prophétie s’accomplirait. J’entrerais dans la légende comme mes ancêtres qui ont vécu au bon vieux temps. Je serais comme un héros homérique dont la mort est toujours annoncées trois chant à l’avance. Sensationnel.
Il les récitait volontiers au milieu de joyeux groupes, […] pendant ces interminables « laaous, » festins homériques par lesquels se terminaient toutes les upa-upa ;[…].
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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