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implicative

adjective

implicative is spelled I-M-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-V-E: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, implicative means “Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in implicative?

Letters11: I-M-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-V-E
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is implicative?

Implicative appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of implicative

  • more implicative comparative
  • most implicative superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does implicative mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does implicative come from?

From implicate + -ive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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