adaptive
\a.dap.tiv\
The verdict
“adaptive” is uncommon French (frequency #97,621 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,621
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier d’adaptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adaptive · adaptive · French
adaptive · rank #97,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,621
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH actuariat
Nearest frequency peer: actuariat (-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 « adaptive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accusèrent
accusèrent
2,383 corpus weight
- Achéron
Achéron
2,382 corpus weight
- actuariat
actuariat
2,381 corpus weight
- adaptive
adaptive
2,380 corpus weight
- adar
adar
2,379 corpus weight
- addy
addy
2,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adaptive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adaptive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dap.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adaptive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adaptive is uncommon French at frequency #97,621 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dap.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier d’adaptif.".
adaptive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adaptive, spelled A-D-A-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier d’adaptif.
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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