combatifs
\kɔ̃.ba.tif\
The verdict
“combatifs” is uncommon French (frequency #81,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,896
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de combatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combatifs · combatifs · French
combatifs · rank #81,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,896
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coltan
Nearest frequency peer: coltan (-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 « combatifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codecs
codecs
18,108 corpus weight
- colorisation
colorisation
18,107 corpus weight
- coltan
coltan
18,106 corpus weight
- combatifs
combatifs
18,105 corpus weight
- commandons
commandons
18,104 corpus weight
- commettaient
commettaient
18,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « combatifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combatifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ba.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « combatifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
combatifs is uncommon French at frequency #81,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.ba.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de combatif.".
combatifs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 combatifs, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de combatif.
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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