destructif
\dɛs.tʁyk.tif\
The verdict
“destructif” is uncommon French (frequency #68,980 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre à détruire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destructif · destructif · French
destructif · rank #68,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,980
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devines
Nearest frequency peer: devines (+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 « destructif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Derry
Derry
31,024 corpus weight
- descendais
descendais
31,023 corpus weight
- destructif
destructif
31,021 corpus weight
- devines
devines
31,020 corpus weight
- Diab
Diab
31,019 corpus weight
- dictatoriale
dictatoriale
31,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destructif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destructif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.tʁyk.tif\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destructif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destructif is uncommon French at frequency #68,980 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.tʁyk.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est propre à détruire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for destructif, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 destructif, spelled D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre à détruire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destructif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cherchons donc à mieux définir à quoi fait référence le terme d’ « agresseur », dont il faut maintenir intact le sens destructif.
Cette présence était comme un serpent qui se lovait autour de moi et m’étouffait dans ses anneaux. Pourquoi avait-il ce magnétisme destructif ?.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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