romantique

/\ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,889

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

romantique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui rappelle à l’imagination les descriptions des poèmes et des romans. Pronounced \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\. It ranks #4,889 in French word frequency. Often confused with romantisme and romantiques.

Key facts for romantique
PropertyValue
Headwordromantique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,889
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of romantique in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for romantique is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,889 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for romantique, with forms such as "ormantique", "rmoantique", and "roamntique". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "romantisme", "romantiques", "romanesque", 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 romantique, spelled R-O-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui rappelle à l’imagination les descriptions des poèmes et des romans.
  2. 2
    Relatif au romantisme.
  3. 3
    Qui évoque les qualités, les émotions chères aux romantiques.
  4. 4
    Idéaliste, où l’imagination l’emporte sur le sens des réalités.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ormantique,rmoantique,roamntique,romanitque,romanntique,romantiqeu,romantiqque,romantiuqe,romantqiue,romanttique,romatnique,rommantique,romnatique,rromantique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for romantique

Misspelling Variants of "romantique"

ormantique10rmoantique10roamntique10romanitque10romanntique11romantiqeu10romantiqque11romantiuqe10
Misspelling Variants of "romantique"

Frequency rank: #4,889 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "romantique"?
"romantique" is spelled R-O-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\.
What does "romantique" mean?
As an adj, "romantique" means: Qui rappelle à l’imagination les descriptions des poèmes et des romans.
What words are commonly confused with "romantique"?
"romantique" is commonly confused with "romantisme", "romantiques", "romanesque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "romantique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "romantique" is \ʁɔ.mɑ̃.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "romantique" come from?
"romantique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.