approximatifs
\a.pʁɔk.si.ma.tif\
The verdict
“approximatifs” is uncommon French (frequency #57,750 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,750
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de approximatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approximatifs · approximatifs · French
approximatifs · rank #57,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,750
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprennes
Nearest frequency peer: apprennes (-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 « approximatifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apostat
apostat
42,254 corpus weight
- appartenons
appartenons
42,253 corpus weight
- apprennes
apprennes
42,252 corpus weight
- approximati…
approximatifs
42,251 corpus weight
- appréhendée
appréhendée
42,250 corpus weight
- apprêt
apprêt
42,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approximatifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approximatifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔk.si.ma.tif\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #57,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approximatifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approximatifs is uncommon French at frequency #57,750 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pʁɔk.si.ma.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de approximatif.".
approximatifs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is approximatifs, spelled A-P-P-R-O-X-I-M-A-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de approximatif.
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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