rachitique
\ʁa.ʃi.tik\
The verdict
“rachitique” is uncommon French (frequency #97,334 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,334
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est affecté de rachitisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rachitique · rachitique · French
rachitique · rank #97,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,334
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH questi
Nearest frequency peer: questi (-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 « rachitique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quenouilles
quenouilles
2,670 corpus weight
- querelleur
querelleur
2,669 corpus weight
- questi
questi
2,668 corpus weight
- rachitique
rachitique
2,667 corpus weight
- raffut
raffut
2,666 corpus weight
- Rafinha
Rafinha
2,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rachitique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rachitique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.ʃi.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rachitique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rachitique is uncommon French at frequency #97,334 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.ʃi.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
rachitique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rachitique, spelled R-A-C-H-I-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est affecté de rachitisme.
- 2Qualifie une affection qui tient du rachitisme.
- 3Qualifie des plantes avortées ou qui se développent mal.
- 4Qui est peu développé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rachitique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous trouverions sans doute la malheureuse dans quelque attitude pauvre, rabougrie et rachitique comme ces prisonniers des plombs de Venise qui vieillissaient ployés en deux.
Le vieillard devait avoir soixante-dix ans, […]. On devinait dans ce corps rachitique une effrayante usure de tous les rouages organiques.
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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