curatives
\ky.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“curatives” is uncommon French (frequency #57,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,860
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de curatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curatives · curatives · French
curatives · rank #57,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,860
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivait
Nearest frequency peer: cultivait (-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 « curatives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cub
cub
42,144 corpus weight
- cuisinières
cuisinières
42,143 corpus weight
- cultivait
cultivait
42,142 corpus weight
- curatives
curatives
42,141 corpus weight
- cursive
cursive
42,140 corpus weight
- célébraient
célébraient
42,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curatives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curatives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curatives is uncommon French at frequency #57,860 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ky.ʁa.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de curatif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for curatives in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 curatives, spelled C-U-R-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de curatif.
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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