discursive
\dis.kyʁ.siv\
The verdict
“discursive” is uncommon French (frequency #73,900 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,900
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de discursif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discursive · discursive · French
discursive · rank #73,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,900
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discréditée
Nearest frequency peer: discréditée (-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 « discursive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diablesse
diablesse
26,104 corpus weight
- diatomées
diatomées
26,103 corpus weight
- discréditée
discréditée
26,102 corpus weight
- discursive
discursive
26,101 corpus weight
- disloque
disloque
26,100 corpus weight
- dita
dita
26,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discursive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discursive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.kyʁ.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discursive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discursive is uncommon French at frequency #73,900 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.kyʁ.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de discursif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for discursive, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 discursive, spelled D-I-S-C-U-R-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de discursif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how discursive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En raison du contexte politique, de la confrontation dialogique des aveux, des textes officiels, du fait qu’ils sont des pseudo-témoignages de culpabilité et que les témoignages postérieurs en sont l’envers, on a affaire à une configuration discursive complexe.
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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