siliceux
\si.li.sø\
The verdict
“siliceux” is uncommon French (frequency #64,784 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,784
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la nature de la silice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-siliceux · siliceux · French
siliceux · rank #64,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,784
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sigrid
Nearest frequency peer: Sigrid (-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 « siliceux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- serenity
serenity
35,221 corpus weight
- sido
sido
35,219 corpus weight
- Sigrid
Sigrid
35,218 corpus weight
- siliceux
siliceux
35,217 corpus weight
- siégeaient
siégeaient
35,216 corpus weight
- sociolingui…
sociolinguistique
35,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « siliceux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siliceux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.li.sø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « siliceux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
siliceux is uncommon French at frequency #64,784 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.li.sø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
siliceux has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is siliceux, spelled S-I-L-I-C-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la nature de la silice.
- 2Qui contient de la silice.
- 3Silicicole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how siliceux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Roche siliceuse.
Lorsque dans un terrain siliceux avec un sous-sol de micaschiste qui ne produit presque rien, on élève une race de petits chevaux, que faut-il faire pour leur donner plus de taille, des formes plus régulières […].
Synonyms
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).