lithique
\li.tik\
The verdict
“lithique” is uncommon French (frequency #83,111 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,111
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une industrie préhistorique de la pierre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lithique · lithique · French
lithique · rank #83,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,111
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lissée
Nearest frequency peer: lissée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lithique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lighthouse
lighthouse
16,893 corpus weight
- liquidations
liquidations
16,892 corpus weight
- lissée
lissée
16,891 corpus weight
- lithique
lithique
16,890 corpus weight
- Liénard
Liénard
16,888 corpus weight
- logorrhée
logorrhée
16,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lithique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lithique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.tik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lithique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lithique is uncommon French at frequency #83,111 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
lithique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 lithique, spelled L-I-T-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une industrie préhistorique de la pierre.
- 2Qui contient des débris de roche.
- 3Synonyme d’urique dans l’expression acide lithique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lithique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le Bassin parisien, cette discussion s’est engagée à partir du gisement de Thèmes, dans l’Yonne (fig. 15 ; Le Brun-Ricalens et Brou, 2003). Ce gisement de plein air avait été initialement considéré comme aurignacien (Bodechon, 1982 ; Bel, 1991) sur la base d’une industrie lithique associant burins carénés et produits lamellaires, en particulier des l…
Les millénaires se succèdent; l’outillage lithique, l’habitat et les rites funéraires en témoignent.
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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