hypersonique
\i.pɛʁ.sɔ.nik\
The verdict
“hypersonique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hautement supersonique (vitesse supérieure à Mach 5).
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypersonique · hypersonique · French
hypersonique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | hypersonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.pɛʁ.sɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hypersonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hypersonique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.pɛʁ.sɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hautement supersonique (vitesse supérieure à Mach 5).".
hypersonique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 hypersonique, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-S-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Hautement supersonique (vitesse supérieure à Mach 5).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypersonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’effort industriel se concentre sur l’achèvement de la configuration d’étape 2 qui implique la mise au point définitive de l’architecture des sous-systèmes spationiques, propulsion et réservoirs de stockage, l’optimisation de la disposition des volumes pressurisés et non pressurisés, l’amélioration de la forme aérodynamique pour remédier aux défauts d’éq…
Le vol de ce jeudi devait permettre de mieux comprendre techniquement le vol hypersonique.
This word in other languages
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