mimétique
\mi.me.tik\
The verdict
“mimétique” is uncommon French (frequency #66,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au mimétisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mimetique · mimétique · French
mimétique · rank #66,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,910
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH millisecondes
Nearest frequency peer: millisecondes (-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 « mimétique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- migrateur
migrateur
33,095 corpus weight
- millisecond…
millisecondes
33,092 corpus weight
- mimétique
mimétique
33,091 corpus weight
- minion
minion
33,090 corpus weight
- minéralogiq…
minéralogiques
33,089 corpus weight
- Mircea
Mircea
33,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mimétique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mimétique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.me.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mimétique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mimétique is uncommon French at frequency #66,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.me.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au mimétisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mimétique in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mimétique, spelled M-I-M-É-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au mimétisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mimétique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour des raisons longuement accumulées, et dont les unes sont assez claires (intérêt pour les problèmes du réalisme, du sens politique des textes dans un monde où tout visait à les déposséder dans ce domaine, à les dédimensionner), et dont d’autres certainement m’échappent mais que les malins sauront bien lire, qui me voient et me lisent du dehors et que…
Cette « vérité », l'intellectuel la situe dans la rupture que le judéo-christianisme instaure avec la violence mimétique et dans la nouveauté de sa condamnation de la violence religieuse.
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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