lunatique
\ly.na.tik\
The verdict
“lunatique” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,899
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est fantasque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lunatique · lunatique · French
lunatique · rank #37,899 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,899
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lufthansa
Nearest frequency peer: Lufthansa (-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 « lunatique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- louez
louez
62,105 corpus weight
- Lucienne
Lucienne
62,104 corpus weight
- Lufthansa
Lufthansa
62,103 corpus weight
- lunatique
lunatique
62,102 corpus weight
- Lyonnaises
Lyonnaises
62,101 corpus weight
- Léonie
Léonie
62,099 corpus weight
What this shows « lunatique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lunatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.na.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lunatique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around lunatique (IPA \ly.na.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,899 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for lunatique, with forms such as "llunatique", "lnuatique", and "luantique". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lunatique, spelled L-U-N-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est fantasque.
- 2Qui est soumis à l’influence de la lune.
- 3Dont l’humeur est changeante ; cyclothymique.
- 4Qualifiait un cheval qui est sujet à une ophtalmie périodique.
- 5Qui est dans la lune, distrait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lunatique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre ses numéros d’acteurs et ses sketches comiques, Érotissimo apparaît comme une aimable critique de la société française pompidolienne de 1968, à travers ses ouvriers rêveurs, ses employés feignants, ses concepteurs lunatiques et incompris, ses chefs d’entreprise âpres au gain et magouilleurs, ses fonctionnaires bornés et revanchards, tout cela confro…
Le Jones dément, acculant au suicide sa secte d’arriérés, est à peine différent du lunatique Khadafi, le prophète de la lubie, du calamiteux Khomeini qui ayatollise gâteusement à Téhéran, ou du débile Lefebvre, qui rafistole à Écône sa petite église pour lui tout seul.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llunatique
- lnuatique
- luantique
- lunaitque
- lunatiqeu
- lunatiqque
- lunatiuqe
- lunatqiue
- lunattique
- lunnatique
- luntaique
- ulnatique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lunatique - 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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