corrosive
\kɔ.ʁɔ.ziv\
The verdict
“corrosive” is uncommon French (frequency #74,682 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,682
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de corrosif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corrosive · corrosive · French
corrosive · rank #74,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corriges
Nearest frequency peer: corriges (-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 « corrosive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- continûment
continûment
25,322 corpus weight
- coordonnant
coordonnant
25,321 corpus weight
- corriges
corriges
25,320 corpus weight
- corrosive
corrosive
25,319 corpus weight
- coulissant
coulissant
25,318 corpus weight
- coussinet
coussinet
25,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corrosive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corrosive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɔ.ziv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corrosive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corrosive is uncommon French at frequency #74,682 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ʁɔ.ziv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de corrosif.".
corrosive 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is corrosive, spelled C-O-R-R-O-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de corrosif.
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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