sophistique
\sɔ.fis.tik\
The verdict
“sophistique” is uncommon French (frequency #94,289 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,289
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les sophistes antiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sophistique · sophistique · French
sophistique · rank #94,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,289
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soissonnais
Nearest frequency peer: soissonnais (-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 « sophistique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soierie
soierie
5,714 corpus weight
- soissonnais
soissonnais
5,713 corpus weight
- sophistique
sophistique
5,712 corpus weight
- sorrow
sorrow
5,711 corpus weight
- souillent
souillent
5,710 corpus weight
- sourcilleux
sourcilleux
5,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sophistique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sophistique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔ.fis.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sophistique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sophistique is uncommon French at frequency #94,289 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔ.fis.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sophistique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sophistique, spelled S-O-P-H-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les sophistes antiques.
- 2Qui est de la nature du sophisme, qui contient des sophismes.
- 3Qui fait usage du sophisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sophistique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Philosophie sophistique.
Je ne donne jamais au mot "philosophie", dans le cours de cet ouvrage, le sens que ses détracteurs ont voulu lui donner de nos jours, soit en opposant la philosophie aux idées religieuses, soit en appelant "philosophiques" des systèmes purement sophistiques.
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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