tellurique
French, adjective/tɛ.ly.ʁik/
tellurique is spelled T-E-L-L-U-R-I-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tellurique is a French adjective meaning “telluric (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la terre ou au sol”.
What does tellurique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
telluric (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la terre ou au sol. 2. Qualifie les planètes similaires à la Terre par leur constitution de roches et de métaux. 3. Qualifie l’acide produit par la combinaison du tellure avec l’oxygène et les sels formés avec ce métal.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tellurique
- telluriques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tellurique?
- /tɛ.ly.ʁik/
- /te.ly.ʁik/
- \te.ly.ʁik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tellurique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tellurique in French?
tellurique appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).