adjectival
\ad.ʒɛk.ti.val\
The verdict
“adjectival” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’adjectif, qui en a le caractère, la fonction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adjectival · adjectival · French
adjectival · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adjectival |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.ʒɛk.ti.val\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
adjectival is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ad.ʒɛk.ti.val\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à l’adjectif, qui en a le caractère, la fonction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for adjectival in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adjectival, spelled A-D-J-E-C-T-I-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’adjectif, qui en a le caractère, la fonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adjectival appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, grâce à des rimes isosexuelles dont la morphologie nominale ou adjectivale est exclusivement féminine, elle s'affranchit de la règle séculaire d'alternance du sexe des rimes et consacre ainsi le sonnet à la féminité.
Un suffixe adjectival. Une locution adjectivale.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.