educative
"educative" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“educative” is uncommon English (frequency #60,784 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,784
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serving to educate; educational.
Corpus desk
Index EN-educative · educative · English
educative · rank #60,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,784
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH egoism
Nearest frequency peer: egoism (+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 “educative”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Eagleton
Eagleton
39,220 corpus weight
- educative
educative
39,217 corpus weight
- egoism
egoism
39,216 corpus weight
- eigenvalue
eigenvalue
39,215 corpus weight
- eir
eir
39,214 corpus weight
- Eldar
Eldar
39,213 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “educative” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | educative |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “educative” in English
Rare enough to double-check
educative is uncommon English at frequency #60,784 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Serving to educate; educational.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for educative in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From educate + -ive. The correct English form is educative, spelled E-D-U-C-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Serving to educate; educational.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how educative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Y]ou didn't need a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This was not an animal to be controlled—it was an animal to be, at the most, educated. She admitted accordingly that she was educative—which Maggie was so aware that she herself, inevitably, wasn't; so it came round to being true that what she was most in charge o…
Etymology
From educate + -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); 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).