poétique
\pɔ.e.tik\
The verdict
“poétique” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,220
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la poésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poetique · poétique · French
poétique · rank #7,220 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,220
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poursuites
Nearest frequency peer: poursuites (-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 « poétique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- potable
potable
92,784 corpus weight
- poteau
poteau
92,783 corpus weight
- poursuites
poursuites
92,782 corpus weight
- poétique
poétique
92,781 corpus weight
- prestige
prestige
92,780 corpus weight
- probabilité
probabilité
92,779 corpus weight
What this shows « poétique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poétique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.e.tik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poétique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around poétique (IPA \pɔ.e.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,220 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for poétique, with forms such as "opétique", "poetique", and "potéique". 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. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pratique", "portique", "politique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 poétique, spelled P-O-É-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la poésie.
- 2Qui concerne la poésie.
- 3Ce qui est relatif aux qualités de la poésie, de ce qui en offre les caractères d’élévation, d’inspiration, d’images, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poétique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Style poétique.
Génie Poétique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opétique
- poetique
- potéique
- poéitque
- poétiqeu
- poétiqque
- poétiuqe
- poétqiue
- poéttique
- ppoétique
- péotique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poétique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poétique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).