soporifique
\sɔ.pɔ.ʁi.fik\
The verdict
“soporifique” is uncommon French (frequency #56,276 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la vertu d’endormir, d’assoupir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soporifique · soporifique · French
soporifique · rank #56,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,276
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sona
Nearest frequency peer: sona (-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 « soporifique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solennelles
solennelles
43,728 corpus weight
- sombrero
sombrero
43,727 corpus weight
- sona
sona
43,726 corpus weight
- soporifique
soporifique
43,725 corpus weight
- sots
sots
43,723 corpus weight
- souffriront
souffriront
43,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soporifique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soporifique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔ.pɔ.ʁi.fik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soporifique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soporifique is uncommon French at frequency #56,276 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔ.pɔ.ʁi.fik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for soporifique in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soporifique, spelled S-O-P-O-R-I-F-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la vertu d’endormir, d’assoupir.
- 2Qui est très ennuyeux, qui donne envie de dormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soporifique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’opium est soporifique.
Un discours soporifique.
Synonyms
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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