destructive
\dɛs.tʁyk.tiv\
The verdict
“destructive” is uncommon French (frequency #61,444 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,444
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de destructif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destructive · destructive · French
destructive · rank #61,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,444
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delannoy
Nearest frequency peer: Delannoy (-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 « destructive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- decks
decks
38,560 corpus weight
- Delannoy
Delannoy
38,558 corpus weight
- destructive
destructive
38,557 corpus weight
- différés
différés
38,556 corpus weight
- discover
discover
38,554 corpus weight
- disqualifie
disqualifie
38,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destructive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destructive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.tʁyk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destructive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destructive is uncommon French at frequency #61,444 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.tʁyk.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de destructif.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for destructive, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is destructive, spelled D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de destructif.
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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