cumulative
\ky.my.la.tiv\
The verdict
“cumulative” is uncommon French (frequency #62,183 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,183
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de cumulatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cumulative · cumulative · French
cumulative · rank #62,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,183
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CSO
Nearest frequency peer: CSO (-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 « cumulative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cruciforme
cruciforme
37,821 corpus weight
- crudité
crudité
37,820 corpus weight
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
- cumulative
cumulative
37,818 corpus weight
- curée
curée
37,817 corpus weight
- customs
customs
37,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cumulative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumulative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.my.la.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cumulative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cumulative is uncommon French at frequency #62,183 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ky.my.la.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de cumulatif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cumulative, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cumulative, spelled C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de cumulatif.
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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