ichtyophage
\ik.tjɔ.faʒ\
The verdict
“ichtyophage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui mange du poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ichtyophage · ichtyophage · French
ichtyophage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | ichtyophage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ik.tjɔ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ichtyophage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ik.tjɔ.faʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui mange du poisson.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ichtyophage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ichtyophage, spelled I-C-H-T-Y-O-P-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Qui mange du poisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ichtyophage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chasseur Sabine parvint à abattre une couple de ces gigantesques orfraies, […], — magnifiques échantillons de ces oiseaux voyageurs, exclusivement ichtyophages, que l’hiver chasse jusqu’aux rivages du golfe du Mexique.
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.