admirative
\ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“admirative” is uncommon French (frequency #59,767 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de admiratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-admirative · admirative · French
admirative · rank #59,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,767
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acting
Nearest frequency peer: acting (-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 « admirative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accolés
accolés
40,237 corpus weight
- acidose
acidose
40,236 corpus weight
- acting
acting
40,235 corpus weight
- admirative
admirative
40,234 corpus weight
- admirons
admirons
40,233 corpus weight
- advertising
advertising
40,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « admirative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admirative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « admirative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
admirative is uncommon French at frequency #59,767 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de admiratif.".
admirative has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 admirative, spelled A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de admiratif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how admirative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mathieu Dolieu pérorait sur son sujet favori, les rapports du génie et de la maladie ; ses invités l’écoutaient avec une ferveur admirative ; Sophie, avec un sourire appendu à sa jolie bouche de marquise du XVIIIᵉ siècle, tournait des regards perçants vers le domestique à qui elle donnait des ordres muets, ponctuellement exécutés.
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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