toxique

\tɔk.sik\

/\tɔk.sik\/ adj

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The verdict

“toxique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,568
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provoque des effets nocifs sur un organisme vivant, en perturbant ses fonctions biologiques ou en causant des lésions.

Corpus desk

Index FR-toxique · toxique · French

toxique · rank #9,568 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,568
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tombeau

Nearest frequency peer: tombeau (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « toxique »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « toxique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

toxique vs trique
71% similar
toxique vs typique
71% similar
toxique vs tunique
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for toxique
PropertyValue
Headwordtoxique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tɔk.sik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,568
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toxique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.toxiquese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tombeau » (#9,567), « trame » (#9,569), « transit » (#9,570). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « toxique » est au #9,568. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around toxique (IPA \tɔk.sik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,568 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for toxique, with forms such as "otxique", "toixque", and "toxiqeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trique", "typique", "tunique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 toxique, spelled T-O-X-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui provoque des effets nocifs sur un organisme vivant, en perturbant ses fonctions biologiques ou en causant des lésions.
  2. 2
    Qui nuit au bien-être psychologique ou émotionnel, en parlant d’une personne, d’un comportement, d’un environnement ou d’une relation.
  3. 3
    (néosémie) (pour un emprunt) Qui se distingue par l’existence d’une formule de calcul du taux autre que la formule simple « taux variable + marge ».

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La phalloïde ne pardonne pas, la panthère non plus. Pour la fausse oronge, elle est toxique ; elle tue les mouches, dit-on ; pourtant dans les pays du nord, les gens en usent pour donner de beaux rêves.
  2. Une étude portant sur plusieurs générations de rats a montré que le phosphamidon, administré à des doses toxiques pour la mère, influait sur la taille de la portée et sur la viabilité des jeunes rats.

Antonyms

comestiblediététique

This word in other languages

toxic(English)tósigo(Español)giftig(Deutsch)tóxico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otxique
  • toixque
  • toxiqeu
  • toxiqque
  • toxiuqe
  • toxqiue
  • toxxique
  • ttoxique
  • txoique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toxique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

otxique2toixque2toxiqeu2toxiqque1toxiuqe2toxqiue2toxxique1ttoxique1
Edit distance from "toxique"

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 "toxique"?
"toxique" is spelled T-O-X-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔk.sik\.
What does "toxique" mean?
As an adjective, "toxique" means: Qui provoque des effets nocifs sur un organisme vivant, en perturbant ses fonctions biologiques ou en causant des lésions.
What words are commonly confused with "toxique"?
"toxique" is commonly confused with "trique", "typique", "tunique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toxique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toxique" is \tɔk.sik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toxique" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tombeau#9,567transit#9,570textile#9,565sorcier#9,561

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Syrien9 variantsplates9 variantsNickel9 variantsisolés9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list