additive
\a.di.tiv\
The verdict
“additive” is uncommon French (frequency #56,393 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,393
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de additif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-additive · additive · French
additive · rank #56,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,393
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Adecco
Nearest frequency peer: Adecco (+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 « additive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accentués
accentués
43,611 corpus weight
- accélérés
accélérés
43,610 corpus weight
- additive
additive
43,608 corpus weight
- Adecco
Adecco
43,607 corpus weight
- agaçante
agaçante
43,606 corpus weight
- aggravantes
aggravantes
43,605 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « additive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | additive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.di.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « additive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
additive is uncommon French at frequency #56,393 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.di.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de additif.".
additive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is additive, spelled A-D-D-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de additif.
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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