distributive
\dis.tʁi.by.tiv\
The verdict
“distributive” is uncommon French (frequency #97,866 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,866
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de distributif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distributive · distributive · French
distributive · rank #97,866 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,866
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distancée
Nearest frequency peer: distancée (-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 « distributive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissipera
dissipera
2,138 corpus weight
- dissuadera
dissuadera
2,137 corpus weight
- distancée
distancée
2,136 corpus weight
- distributive
distributive
2,135 corpus weight
- divergeant
divergeant
2,134 corpus weight
- divisibilité
divisibilité
2,133 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distributive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distributive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tʁi.by.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distributive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distributive is uncommon French at frequency #97,866 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.tʁi.by.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de distributif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for distributive in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is distributive, spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de distributif.
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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