ablatif
\a.bla.tif\
The verdict
“ablatif” is uncommon French (frequency #98,691 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,691
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre à l’ablation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ablatif · ablatif · French
ablatif · rank #98,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,691
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abandonnerais
Nearest frequency peer: abandonnerais (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ablatif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abandonnera…
abandonnerais
1,311 corpus weight
- ablatif
ablatif
1,310 corpus weight
- abstinent
abstinent
1,308 corpus weight
- accrochais
accrochais
1,306 corpus weight
- acrostiche
acrostiche
1,305 corpus weight
- acute
acute
1,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ablatif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.bla.tif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ablatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ablatif is uncommon French at frequency #98,691 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.bla.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propre à l’ablation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ablatif in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ablatif, spelled A-B-L-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Propre à l’ablation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ablatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, un procédé ablatif est actuellement développé à l’échelle pilote pour la production d’huiles de pyrolyse utilisables comme carburant pour automobiles.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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