photique
French, adjective\fɔ.tik\
photique is a French adjective meaning “photic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit de la zone de surface marine où l'intensité lumineuse rend l’activité de photosynthèse possible”.
What does photique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
photic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit de la zone de surface marine où l'intensité lumineuse rend l’activité de photosynthèse possible.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of photique
- photiques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce photique?
- \fɔ.tik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to photique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is photique in French?
photique appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).