liquéfier
\li.ke.fje\
The verdict
“liquéfier” is uncommon French (frequency #79,486 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,486
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fondre, rendre liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liquefier · liquéfier · French
liquéfier · rank #79,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,486
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH localisent
Nearest frequency peer: localisent (+3 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 « liquéfier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- leed
leed
20,521 corpus weight
- Legrain
Legrain
20,520 corpus weight
- liquéfier
liquéfier
20,515 corpus weight
- localisent
localisent
20,512 corpus weight
- lofts
lofts
20,511 corpus weight
- louera
louera
20,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liquéfier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liquéfier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.ke.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liquéfier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liquéfier is uncommon French at frequency #79,486 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \li.ke.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for liquéfier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is liquéfier, spelled L-I-Q-U-É-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fondre, rendre liquide.
- 2Faire perdre toute consistance, toute énergie, toute lucidité ou tout sens moral.
- 3Fondre, devenir liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liquéfier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feu liquéfie le plomb, l’argent, etc.
La canicule m’a littéralement liquéfié.
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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