admirative

\ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\

/\ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « admirative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for admirative
PropertyValue
Headwordadmirative
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\
Letters10
Frequency rank#59,767
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « admirative » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).admirativetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « acting » (#59,766), « admirons » (#59,768), « acidose » (#59,765). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « admirative » est au #59,767. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de admiratif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how admirative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "admirative"?
"admirative" is spelled A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\.
What does "admirative" mean?
As an adjective, "admirative" means: Féminin singulier de admiratif.
How do you pronounce "admirative"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "admirative" is \ad.mi.ʁa.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "admirative", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list