tyrannique
French, adjective/ti.ʁa.nik/
tyrannique is a French adjective meaning “tyrannical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui tient de la tyrannie, qui est injuste, violent, contre le droit et la raison”.
What does tyrannique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tyrannical
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui tient de la tyrannie, qui est injuste, violent, contre le droit et la raison. 2. Qui exerce une action, un pouvoir irrésistible.
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 tyrannique
- tyranniques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tyrannique?
- /ti.ʁa.nik/
- \ti.ʁa.nik\
- [ti.ʁa.nik]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tyrannique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tyrannique in French?
tyrannique appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).