toxique
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,568
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
toxique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui provoque des effets nocifs sur un organisme vivant, en perturbant ses fonctions biologiques ou en causant des lésions. Pronounced \tɔk.sik\. It ranks #9,568 in French word frequency. Often confused with trique and typique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toxique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tɔk.sik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toxique is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔk.sik\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,568 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for toxique, with forms such as "otxique", "toixque", and "toxiqeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trique", "typique", "tunique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is toxique, spelled T-O-X-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui provoque des effets nocifs sur un organisme vivant, en perturbant ses fonctions biologiques ou en causant des lésions.
- 2Qui nuit au bien-être psychologique ou émotionnel, en parlant d’une personne, d’un comportement, d’un environnement ou d’une relation.
- 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 ».
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otxique,toixque,toxiqeu,toxiqque,toxiuqe,toxqiue,toxxique,ttoxique,txoique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toxique
Misspelling Variants of "toxique"
Frequency rank: #9,568 in French
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