salicoque
\sa.li.kɔk\
The verdict
“salicoque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire des crevettes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salicoque · salicoque · French
salicoque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salicoque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.li.kɔk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
salicoque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.li.kɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vulgaire des crevettes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salicoque in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salicoque, spelled S-A-L-I-C-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire des crevettes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salicoque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La salicoque est un crustacé de mer, de l’ordre des décapodes, de la famille des macroures, que les Grecs nommaient cavis et cranyous, et que nous appelons crevettes.
This word in other languages
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