adventices
\ad.vɑ̃.tis\
The verdict
“adventices” is uncommon French (frequency #65,662 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,662
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de adventice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adventices · adventices · French
adventices · rank #65,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,662
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adsorption
Nearest frequency peer: adsorption (-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 « adventices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acculés
acculés
34,342 corpus weight
- adda
adda
34,341 corpus weight
- adsorption
adsorption
34,340 corpus weight
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
- aer
aer
34,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adventices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adventices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.vɑ̃.tis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adventices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adventices is uncommon French at frequency #65,662 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ad.vɑ̃.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de adventice.".
No misspelling variants are generated for adventices in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adventices, spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de adventice.
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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