reliquaire
\ʁə.li.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“reliquaire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de boîte, de coffret de forme variable, où l’on conserve des reliques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reliquaire · reliquaire · French
reliquaire · rank #43,112 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,112
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH religiosité
Nearest frequency peer: religiosité (-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 « reliquaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recréé
recréé
56,892 corpus weight
- religiosité
religiosité
56,890 corpus weight
- reliquaire
reliquaire
56,889 corpus weight
- reliquat
reliquat
56,888 corpus weight
- Renzi
Renzi
56,887 corpus weight
- residence
residence
56,886 corpus weight
What this shows « reliquaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reliquaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.li.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reliquaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around reliquaire (IPA \ʁə.li.kɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte de boîte, de coffret de forme variable, où l’on conserve des reliques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for reliquaire, with forms such as "erliquaire", "reilquaire", and "reliqauire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is reliquaire, spelled R-E-L-I-Q-U-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de boîte, de coffret de forme variable, où l’on conserve des reliques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reliquaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et que proposez-vous pour gage ? – Ce reliquaire, qui contient un fragment de la vraie croix, rapporté du monastère du mont Carmel, dit le pèlerin en tirant de sa poitrine une petite boîte d’ivoire et en se signant.
Ceux-ci enterrent, dans une cachette creusée sous l'escalier de la chambre du sacristain, la châsse de Notre-Dame, tous les reliquaires, les bijoux, les chapes de drap d'or, et bouchent le trou avec du plâtre; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erliquaire
- reilquaire
- reliqauire
- reliqquaire
- reliquaier
- reliquairre
- reliquarie
- reliquiare
- reliuqaire
- relliquaire
- relqiuaire
- rleiquaire
- rreliquaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reliquaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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