communicative
\kɔ.my.ni.ka.tiv\
The verdict
“communicative” is uncommon French (frequency #51,365 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,365
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de communicatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-communicative · communicative · French
communicative · rank #51,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,365
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commets
Nearest frequency peer: commets (-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 « communicative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colporteur
colporteur
48,639 corpus weight
- combattantes
combattantes
48,638 corpus weight
- commets
commets
48,637 corpus weight
- communicati…
communicative
48,636 corpus weight
- communiquait
communiquait
48,635 corpus weight
- commémorati…
commémoratives
48,634 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « communicative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | communicative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.my.ni.ka.tiv\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #51,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « communicative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
communicative is uncommon French at frequency #51,365 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.my.ni.ka.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de communicatif.".
communicative doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is communicative, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de communicatif.
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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