nutritive
/ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/
"nutritive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nutritive” is uncommon English (frequency #67,694 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,694
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to nutrition.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nutritive · nutritive · English
nutritive · rank #67,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,694
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH objectify
Nearest frequency peer: objectify (+2 rank slots)
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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 “nutritive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- NTU
NTU
32,311 corpus weight
- numerator
numerator
32,310 corpus weight
- nutritive
nutritive
32,307 corpus weight
- objectify
objectify
32,305 corpus weight
- oceanograph…
oceanographer
32,304 corpus weight
- offscreen
offscreen
32,303 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nutritive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nutritive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nutritive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nutritive is uncommon English at frequency #67,694 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nutritive in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“I suckle”). The correct English form is nutritive, spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to nutrition.
- 2Nourishing, providing nutrition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nutritive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.
Etymology
From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“I suckle”).
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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