syllabique

\si.la.bik\

/\si.la.bik\/ adj

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The verdict

“syllabique” is uncommon French (frequency #62,663 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,663
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux syllabes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-syllabique · syllabique · French

syllabique · rank #62,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,663
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sx

Nearest frequency peer: sx (-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 « syllabique »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « syllabique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for syllabique
PropertyValue
Headwordsyllabique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\si.la.bik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#62,663
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « syllabique » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.syllabiquetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « sx » (#62,662), « Suétone » (#62,661), « surévalué » (#62,660). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « syllabique » est au #62,663. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

syllabique is uncommon French at frequency #62,663 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.la.bik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for syllabique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 syllabique, spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport aux syllabes.
  2. 2
    Qui représente des syllabes.
  3. 3
    Qualifie une langue où les syllabes rythment la phrase.
  4. 4
    Qualifie une méthode d’apprentissage de la lecture, fondée sur l’association des lettres aux syllabes qu'elles forment (par opposition à la méthode dite « globale »).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how syllabique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Valeur syllabique.
  2. Augment syllabique.

Synonyms

syllabaire

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "syllabique"?
"syllabique" is spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.la.bik\.
What does "syllabique" mean?
As an adjective, "syllabique" means: Qui a rapport aux syllabes.
How do you pronounce "syllabique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "syllabique" is \si.la.bik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "syllabique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list