philologique
\fi.lɔ.lɔ.ʒik\
The verdict
“philologique” is uncommon French (frequency #73,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la philologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philologique · philologique · French
philologique · rank #73,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,436
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persécutent
Nearest frequency peer: persécutent (-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 « philologique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- permettrez
permettrez
26,568 corpus weight
- personnifiée
personnifiée
26,567 corpus weight
- persécutent
persécutent
26,566 corpus weight
- philologique
philologique
26,565 corpus weight
- phtalates
phtalates
26,564 corpus weight
- picorer
picorer
26,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « philologique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philologique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.lɔ.ʒik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « philologique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
philologique is uncommon French at frequency #73,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.lɔ.lɔ.ʒik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la philologie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for philologique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is philologique, spelled P-H-I-L-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la philologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how philologique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« – Ah ! par exemple, dit le prince, je l’ai si bien gourmé que voilà mes propres paroles, dit M. de Beaufort avec toute la majesté que vous lui connaissez : « Mon cher Chavigny, vous êtes blâmable de prêter secours à un drôle comme ce Mazarin. » « – Ah ! Monseigneur, s’écria le second, je comprends, c’est gourmander que vous avez voulu dire. « – Gourmand…
Il faudrait écrire un livre si l'on voulait entrer dans le détail des considérations philologiques qui plaident pour un développement sérieux des études relatives aux idiomes populaires répandus sur toute la surface du domaine français.
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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