adhésive
\a.de.ziv\
The verdict
“adhésive” is uncommon French (frequency #78,101 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,101
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de adhésif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adhesive · adhésive · French
adhésive · rank #78,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,101
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adaptez
Nearest frequency peer: adaptez (-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 « adhésive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Achères
Achères
21,904 corpus weight
- acne
acne
21,903 corpus weight
- acqua
acqua
21,902 corpus weight
- adaptez
adaptez
21,901 corpus weight
- adhésive
adhésive
21,900 corpus weight
- adjointes
adjointes
21,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adhésive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adhésive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.de.ziv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adhésive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adhésive is uncommon French at frequency #78,101 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.de.ziv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de adhésif.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for adhésive, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 adhésive, spelled A-D-H-É-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de adhésif.
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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