thériaque
\te.ʁjak\
The verdict
“thériaque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien médicament composé d’opium et de nombreuses substances végétales et animales, utilisé comme antidote universel et tonique, notamment contre les poisons, les morsures et les affections digest...
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Index FR-theriaque · thériaque · French
thériaque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thériaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ʁjak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
thériaque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.ʁjak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien médicament composé d’opium et de nombreuses substances végétales et animales, utilisé comme antidote universel et tonique, notamment contre les poisons, les morsures et les affections digest...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thériaque, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is thériaque, spelled T-H-É-R-I-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien médicament composé d’opium et de nombreuses substances végétales et animales, utilisé comme antidote universel et tonique, notamment contre les poisons, les morsures et les affections digestives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thériaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos glaives de théâtre n’ont ni fil ni pointe, car ils ne doivent porter que de feintes blessures dont on se guérit subitement à la fin de la pièce, et cela sans onguent, charpie ou thériaque.
C’est ce qui a mis en grand honneur l’anis, le corail rouge, le bouillon de vipère dont parle Mme de Sévigné, l’orviétan, le bézoard, la thériaque, la corne de cerf ou l’œil d’écrevisse réduits en poudre, etc.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.