relique
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,358
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
relique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui reste d’un saint, d’un martyr, voire de Jésus-Christ lui-même, après sa mort. Pronounced \ʁə.lik\. Often confused with relire and reliure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.lik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for relique is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.lik\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,358 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for relique, with forms such as "erlique", "reilque", and "reliqeu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "relire", "reliure", "révoqué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is relique, spelled R-E-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui reste d’un saint, d’un martyr, voire de Jésus-Christ lui-même, après sa mort.
- 2Ce qui reste d’une personne importante après sa mort, soit le corps entier, soit une partie du corps, soit même ce qui lui a appartenu, qui a été à son usage, et qui est gardé en souvenir.
- 3Quelque chose de précieux que l’on garde en souvenir.
- 4Dernier descendant d’une espèce presque disparue ; fossile vivant.
- 5Témoin d’une époque ancienne, d’un climat passé.
- 6Chose qui appartient au passé ou à une époque révolue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlique,reilque,reliqeu,reliqque,reliuqe,rellique,relqiue,rleique,rrelique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "relique"
Frequency rank: #24,358 in French
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