compulsive
\kɔ̃.pyl.siv\
The verdict
“compulsive” is uncommon French (frequency #55,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,836
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de compulsif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compulsive · compulsive · French
compulsive · rank #55,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,836
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compulsifs
Nearest frequency peer: compulsifs (-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 « compulsive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comploter
comploter
44,168 corpus weight
- complotisme
complotisme
44,167 corpus weight
- compulsifs
compulsifs
44,166 corpus weight
- compulsive
compulsive
44,165 corpus weight
- concentra
concentra
44,164 corpus weight
- concevons
concevons
44,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compulsive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compulsive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pyl.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compulsive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compulsive is uncommon French at frequency #55,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.pyl.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de compulsif.".
Zero misspellings are on record for compulsive in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is compulsive, spelled C-O-M-P-U-L-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de compulsif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compulsive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après quoi Luciano s’était naturellement orienté vers sa seule véritable passion, et aussi son seul vrai talent : le trafic de zamal. Plus tard, il en avait même fait un métier. Production, vente en gros et, bien entendu, consommation personnelle compulsive.
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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