horrifique
\ɔ.ʁi.fik\
The verdict
“horrifique” is uncommon French (frequency #56,652 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,652
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre à faire horreur, à effrayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horrifique · horrifique · French
horrifique · rank #56,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,652
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Houdini
Nearest frequency peer: Houdini (+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 « horrifique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hesdin
Hesdin
43,353 corpus weight
- heurtés
heurtés
43,352 corpus weight
- horrifique
horrifique
43,349 corpus weight
- Houdini
Houdini
43,348 corpus weight
- huff
huff
43,347 corpus weight
- hutch
hutch
43,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « horrifique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horrifique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.fik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « horrifique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
horrifique is uncommon French at frequency #56,652 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.ʁi.fik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est propre à faire horreur, à effrayer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for horrifique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is horrifique, spelled H-O-R-R-I-F-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre à faire horreur, à effrayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horrifique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mime de formation, David Howard Thornton, qui incarne le tueur, fait entrer Art le clown dans le panthéon des créatures horrifiques du 7ᵉ art.
Elle est donc de retour, la serial killeuse de l’économie : l’agence de notation, grand méchant horrifique à la sauce économie.
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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