adventice
\ad.vɑ̃.tis\
The verdict
“adventice” is uncommon French (frequency #91,350 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,350
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas naturellement dans une chose, qui y survient de dehors.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adventice · adventice · French
adventice · rank #91,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,350
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adénosine
Nearest frequency peer: adénosine (+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 « adventice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Adolph
Adolph
8,655 corpus weight
- adoptants
adoptants
8,654 corpus weight
- adoreront
adoreront
8,653 corpus weight
- adventice
adventice
8,651 corpus weight
- adénosine
adénosine
8,650 corpus weight
- affairés
affairés
8,649 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adventice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adventice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.vɑ̃.tis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adventice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adventice is uncommon French at frequency #91,350 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ad.vɑ̃.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
adventice has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 adventice, spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas naturellement dans une chose, qui y survient de dehors.
- 2Qui se développe en dehors de son aire de répartition naturelle.
- 3Qualifie les plantes indésirables qui croissent dans les cultures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adventice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des idées adventices.
Tout autant que de ses membres, Albertine avait une conscience directe de sa toque de paille d’Italie et de l’écharpe de soie (qui n’était pas pour elle le siège de moindres sensations de bien-être), et recevait d’elles, tout en faisant le tour de l’église, un autre genre d’impulsion, traduite par un contentement inerte mais auquel je trouvais de la grâce…
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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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