liquide

/\li.kid\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,016

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

liquide is anFrenchadj. It means: Fluide, qui tend à couler. Pronounced \li.kid\. It ranks #3,016 in French word frequency. Often confused with liquides and liquider.

Key facts for liquide
PropertyValue
Headwordliquide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\li.kid\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,016
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of liquide in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for liquide is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.kid\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,016 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for liquide, with forms such as "ilquide", "liqiude", and "liqquide". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "liquides", "liquider", "liquidité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is liquide, spelled L-I-Q-U-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fluide, qui tend à couler.
  2. 2
    Liquéfié.
  3. 3
    De faible consistance.
  4. 4
    Relatif aux consonnes « l, r », qui, étant employées à la suite d’une autre consonne dans une même syllabe, sont coulantes et se prononcent aisément.
  5. 5
    Rapidement disponible, en parlant d’actifs financiers.
  6. 6
    Qui est net et clair, qui n’est pas sujet à contestation, qui n’est pas chargé de dettes.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilquide,liqiude,liqquide,liqudie,liquidde,liquied,liuqide,lliquide,lqiuide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for liquide

Misspelling Variants of "liquide"

ilquide7liqiude7liqquide8liqudie7liquidde8liquied7liuqide7lliquide8
Misspelling Variants of "liquide"

Frequency rank: #3,016 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "liquide"?
"liquide" is spelled L-I-Q-U-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \li.kid\.
What does "liquide" mean?
As an adj, "liquide" means: Fluide, qui tend à couler.
What words are commonly confused with "liquide"?
"liquide" is commonly confused with "liquides", "liquider", "liquidité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "liquide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "liquide" is \li.kid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "liquide" come from?
"liquide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.