italique
\i.ta.lik\
The verdict
“italique” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,614
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’Italie ancienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-italique · italique · French
italique · rank #28,614 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,614
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irrémédiablem…
Nearest frequency peer: irrémédiablement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « italique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- involontair…
involontaires
71,390 corpus weight
- Inès
Inès
71,389 corpus weight
- irrémédiabl…
irrémédiablement
71,388 corpus weight
- italique
italique
71,387 corpus weight
- Jamel
Jamel
71,386 corpus weight
- Jenna
Jenna
71,385 corpus weight
What this shows « italique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | italique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ta.lik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « italique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around italique (IPA \i.ta.lik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,614 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for italique, with forms such as "iatlique", "itailque", and "italiqeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "italiques", "implique", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is italique, spelled I-T-A-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’Italie ancienne.
- 2Qui appartient à un groupe de langues parlées dans l’Italie antique.
- 3Pour un caractère, écrit d’une façon un peu inclinée vers la droite, comme l’écriture. Il s’emploie aussi comme nom masculin (→ voir italique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how italique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les peuples italiques (les Italiques) étaient les Latins, les Étrusques, les Samnites, etc.
La mythologie italique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iatlique
- itailque
- italiqeu
- italiqque
- italiuqe
- itallique
- italqiue
- itlaique
- ittalique
- tialique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of italique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "italique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).