afflictive
"afflictive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afflictive” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That causes physical or mental pain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afflictive · afflictive · English
afflictive · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afflictive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “afflictive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
afflictive is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That causes physical or mental pain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for afflictive, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From afflict + -ive. The correct English form is afflictive, spelled A-F-F-L-I-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1That causes physical or mental pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afflictive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.
All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear: Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.
Etymology
From afflict + -ive.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.