livresque
\li.vʁɛsk\
The verdict
“livresque” is uncommon French (frequency #69,203 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,203
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En rapport avec les livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-livresque · livresque · French
livresque · rank #69,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,203
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH listening
Nearest frequency peer: listening (-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 « livresque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
- ligatures
ligatures
30,801 corpus weight
- ligneuses
ligneuses
30,800 corpus weight
- listening
listening
30,799 corpus weight
- livresque
livresque
30,798 corpus weight
- Louane
Louane
30,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « livresque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | livresque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.vʁɛsk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « livresque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
livresque is uncommon French at frequency #69,203 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.vʁɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for livresque, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is livresque, spelled L-I-V-R-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1En rapport avec les livres.
- 2Qui provient uniquement des livres et non de l’expérience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how livresque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des années durant, les maîtres des lieux vont poursuivre leurs travaux illicites et maintenir leurs activités livresques, cinématographiques et gastronomiques, sans être le moins du monde inquiétés.
Il prouva de la sorte qu’il avait peu de sens politique. Il en manquait, en effet, non seulement parce qu’il portait la maladresse en lui mais parce qu’il était livresque.
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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