runique
\ʁy.nik\
The verdict
“runique” is uncommon French (frequency #98,451 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux runes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-runique · runique · French
runique · rank #98,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ruffec
Nearest frequency peer: Ruffec (-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 « runique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rouvres
rouvres
1,554 corpus weight
- rubra
rubra
1,552 corpus weight
- Ruffec
Ruffec
1,551 corpus weight
- runique
runique
1,550 corpus weight
- Russies
Russies
1,549 corpus weight
- réchauffeur
réchauffeur
1,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « runique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | runique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁy.nik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « runique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
runique is uncommon French at frequency #98,451 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁy.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
runique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is runique, spelled R-U-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux runes.
- 2Qualifie des ouvrages qui ont été primitivement écrits en caractères runiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how runique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'alphabet runique est formé de 16 lettres composées de traits et de diagonales.
Caractères runiques.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).