absorptive
/æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/
"absorptive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“absorptive” is uncommon English (frequency #97,755 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,755
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-absorptive · absorptive · English
absorptive · rank #97,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,755
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abhinav
Nearest frequency peer: Abhinav (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “absorptive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abhinav
Abhinav
2,247 corpus weight
- absorptive
absorptive
2,246 corpus weight
- acquits
acquits
2,244 corpus weight
- ActionScript
ActionScript
2,243 corpus weight
- actus
actus
2,242 corpus weight
- Adah
Adah
2,241 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “absorptive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absorptive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “absorptive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
absorptive is uncommon English at frequency #97,755 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for absorptive in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From absorb + -tive. The correct English form is absorptive, spelled A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how absorptive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
Etymology
From absorb + -tive.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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