craintifs
\kʁɛ̃.tif\
The verdict
“craintifs” is uncommon French (frequency #67,407 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,407
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de craintif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craintifs · craintifs · French
craintifs · rank #67,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,407
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couiner
Nearest frequency peer: couiner (-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 « craintifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosigné
cosigné
32,597 corpus weight
- cossu
cossu
32,596 corpus weight
- couiner
couiner
32,595 corpus weight
- craintifs
craintifs
32,594 corpus weight
- crevards
crevards
32,593 corpus weight
- cristallise…
cristallisent
32,592 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craintifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craintifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craintifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craintifs is uncommon French at frequency #67,407 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɛ̃.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de craintif.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for craintifs, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is craintifs, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de craintif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craintifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès la Saint-Nicolas, on aperçut des loups. Pas les fauves habituels des hivers rigoureux, qui trottinaient vers nous des forêts morvandiaudes, le poil roussâtre, l’échine arquée, craintifs de l’homme.
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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