affectivité
\a.fɛk.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“affectivité” is uncommon French (frequency #61,282 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,282
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité de s’émouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-affectivite · affectivité · French
affectivité · rank #61,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,282
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advisor
Nearest frequency peer: advisor (-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 « affectivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adaptera
adaptera
38,722 corpus weight
- adossées
adossées
38,721 corpus weight
- advisor
advisor
38,720 corpus weight
- affectivité
affectivité
38,719 corpus weight
- affrontait
affrontait
38,718 corpus weight
- affut
affut
38,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « affectivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affectivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fɛk.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « affectivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
affectivité is uncommon French at frequency #61,282 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fɛk.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for affectivité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 affectivité, spelled A-F-F-E-C-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Capacité de s’émouvoir.
- 2Ensemble des phénomènes de la vie affective.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affectivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un homme qu'on décrivait en des cercles initiés comme un animal politique redoutable, aussi malin que féroce, peu sujet à la compassion et ne versant qu'opportunément dans l'affectivité.
Il n'a avoué que mis en présence des billets […] parfumés à Dernier Soir, dont il use immodérément lui-même, on peut se demander pourquoi car, en dépit de son affectivité tortueuse, il n'est ni inverti ni éoniste.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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