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radiative

adjective

radiative is spelled R-A-D-I-A-T-I-V-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, radiative means “of, relating to, or occurring through radiation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in radiative?

Letters9: R-A-D-I-A-T-I-V-E
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd 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 radiative?

Radiative appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 radiative

  • more radiative comparative
  • most radiative superlative

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

What does radiative mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    of, relating to, or occurring through radiation

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

Radiative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense related to radiation:

LanguageWords
Frenchradiatif

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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