rachitique
\ʁa.ʃi.tik\
The verdict
“rachitique” is an uncommon French word, ranked #97,334 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #97,334
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est affecté de rachitisme.
| 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) |
Where “rachitique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rachitique is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.ʃi.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #97,334 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “rachitique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-C-H-I-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁa.ʃi.tik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.