addictives
\a.dik.tiv\
The verdict
“addictives” is uncommon French (frequency #72,884 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,884
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif addictif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-addictives · addictives · French
addictives · rank #72,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,884
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acérés
Nearest frequency peer: acérés (-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 « addictives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acquiesça
acquiesça
27,120 corpus weight
- acquittées
acquittées
27,119 corpus weight
- acérés
acérés
27,118 corpus weight
- addictives
addictives
27,117 corpus weight
- adhérez
adhérez
27,116 corpus weight
- adressage
adressage
27,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « addictives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | addictives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dik.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « addictives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
addictives is uncommon French at frequency #72,884 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dik.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif addictif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for addictives in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is addictives, spelled A-D-D-I-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif addictif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how addictives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2018, près de 22 % des répondants de l’enquête EROPP de l’Observatoire français des drogues et des tendances addictives citaient spontanément le tabac comme une drogue.
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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