datif
\da.tif\
The verdict
“datif” is uncommon French (frequency #70,519 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,519
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est donnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-datif · datif · French
datif · rank #70,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH darjeeling
Nearest frequency peer: darjeeling (-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 « datif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyclotouris…
cyclotourisme
29,486 corpus weight
- damoiseau
damoiseau
29,485 corpus weight
- dansants
dansants
29,484 corpus weight
- darjeeling
darjeeling
29,483 corpus weight
- datif
datif
29,482 corpus weight
- dentifrices
dentifrices
29,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « datif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | datif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \da.tif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « datif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
datif is uncommon French at frequency #70,519 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \da.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est donnée.".
datif has no tracked misspelling variants, 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is datif, spelled D-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how datif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tutelle dative : Tutelle en l'absence de désignation par testament ou si le désigné refuse sa charge, tuteur désigné par le conseil de famille, à la différence de celle qui est déférée par voie testamentaire.
On dit dans un sens analogue :
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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