cursive
\kyʁ.siv\
The verdict
“cursive” is uncommon French (frequency #57,861 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,861
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écriture cursive, écriture liée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cursive · cursive · French
cursive · rank #57,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,861
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curatives
Nearest frequency peer: curatives (-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 « cursive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- dantesque
dantesque
42,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cursive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cursive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kyʁ.siv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cursive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cursive is uncommon French at frequency #57,861 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kyʁ.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écriture cursive, écriture liée.".
cursive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cursive, spelled C-U-R-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Écriture cursive, écriture liée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cursive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cursive est le nom donné aux graphies ayant un tracé rapide résultant de la simplification d'écritures calligraphiées.
Leur filiation réside dans leur intention créatrice : pousser les deux styles de la cursive jusqu’au bout de leurs possibilités.
Antonyms
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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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