applicative
\a.pli.ka.tiv\
The verdict
“applicative” is uncommon French (frequency #98,744 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,744
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de applicatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applicative · applicative · French
applicative · rank #98,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,744
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appeau
Nearest frequency peer: appeau (-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 « applicative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Apamée
Apamée
1,260 corpus weight
- apparaîtrai…
apparaîtraient
1,259 corpus weight
- appeau
appeau
1,258 corpus weight
- applicative
applicative
1,257 corpus weight
- appuyais
appuyais
1,256 corpus weight
- arraisonné
arraisonné
1,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « applicative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | applicative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pli.ka.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « applicative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
applicative is uncommon French at frequency #98,744 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pli.ka.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de applicatif.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for applicative, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 applicative, spelled A-P-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de applicatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how applicative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’inverse, et on a là une seconde différence, certains membres de la classe du verbe sont aptes à prendre les préfixes actanciels sans avoir à subir aucune modification morphologique, le nom devant, lui, se «transitiviser» par une transformation applicative (cf. LePrédicat, 4).
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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