descriptifs
\dɛs.kʁip.tif\
The verdict
“descriptifs” is uncommon French (frequency #50,765 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,765
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de descriptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descriptifs · descriptifs · French
descriptifs · rank #50,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,765
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dermatologue
Nearest frequency peer: dermatologue (-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 « descriptifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dentier
dentier
49,238 corpus weight
- dermatologue
dermatologue
49,237 corpus weight
- descriptifs
descriptifs
49,236 corpus weight
- desdites
desdites
49,235 corpus weight
- Deutschen
Deutschen
49,234 corpus weight
- deviendrai
deviendrai
49,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « descriptifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descriptifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.kʁip.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « descriptifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
descriptifs is uncommon French at frequency #50,765 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.kʁip.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de descriptif.".
descriptifs has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is descriptifs, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de descriptif.
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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