descriptives
\dɛs.kʁip.tiv\
The verdict
“descriptives” is uncommon French (frequency #59,940 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,940
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de descriptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descriptives · descriptives · French
descriptives · rank #59,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,940
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH desigual
Nearest frequency peer: desigual (+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 « descriptives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- densifier
densifier
40,064 corpus weight
- denton
denton
40,063 corpus weight
- descriptives
descriptives
40,061 corpus weight
- desigual
desigual
40,060 corpus weight
- DGAC
DGAC
40,058 corpus weight
- diagonal
diagonal
40,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « descriptives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descriptives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.kʁip.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « descriptives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
descriptives is uncommon French at frequency #59,940 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.kʁip.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de descriptif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for descriptives in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is descriptives, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin 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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