contributive
\kon.tri.bu.ˈti.ve\
The verdict
“contributive” is uncommon French (frequency #83,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,736
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de contributivo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contributive · contributive · French
contributive · rank #83,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,736
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contreproduct…
Nearest frequency peer: contreproductif (-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 « contributive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consente
consente
16,268 corpus weight
- consolations
consolations
16,267 corpus weight
- contreprodu…
contreproductif
16,266 corpus weight
- contributive
contributive
16,265 corpus weight
- cordelier
cordelier
16,263 corpus weight
- cotter
cotter
16,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contributive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contributive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kon.tri.bu.ˈti.ve\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contributive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contributive is uncommon French at frequency #83,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kon.tri.bu.ˈti.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de contributivo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contributive, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contributive, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de contributivo.
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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