phobique
\fo.bik\
The verdict
“phobique” is uncommon French (frequency #70,104 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,104
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux phobies, à la peur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phobique · phobique · French
phobique · rank #70,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharaoniques
Nearest frequency peer: pharaoniques (-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 « phobique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pesants
pesants
29,900 corpus weight
- peureuse
peureuse
29,899 corpus weight
- pharaoniques
pharaoniques
29,898 corpus weight
- phobique
phobique
29,897 corpus weight
- phocéen
phocéen
29,896 corpus weight
- photonique
photonique
29,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phobique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phobique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fo.bik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phobique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phobique is uncommon French at frequency #70,104 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fo.bik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux phobies, à la peur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for phobique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is phobique, spelled P-H-O-B-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux phobies, à la peur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phobique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la seconde partie de ma vie phobique, à partir du moment où mes proches ont su et que le diagnostic a été établi, la situation a changé ; j'ai pu beaucoup plus facilement jouer la carte de l'évitement, si chère aux phobiques.
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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