tropique
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,659
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tropique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère terrestre qui dans l'hémisphère boréal ou austral séparent la zone torride de la zone tempérée. Le soleil y atteint le zénith une fois par an, lors des solst... Pronounced \tʁɔ.pik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tropique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.pik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tropique is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɔ.pik\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,659 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tropique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tropique, spelled T-R-O-P-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère terrestre qui dans l'hémisphère boréal ou austral séparent la zone torride de la zone tempérée. Le soleil y atteint le zénith une fois par an, lors des solstices et aux latitudes de ±23° 26′.
- 2Chacun des deux parallèles de la sphère céleste qui passent par les points solsticiaux, c'est-à-dire à la verticale d’un tropique sur la Terre.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,659 in French
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