dubitative
\dy.bi.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“dubitative” is uncommon French (frequency #70,551 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,551
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dubitatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dubitative · dubitative · French
dubitative · rank #70,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,551
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH druze
Nearest frequency peer: druze (-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 « dubitative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drinks
drinks
29,453 corpus weight
- driven
driven
29,452 corpus weight
- druze
druze
29,451 corpus weight
- dubitative
dubitative
29,450 corpus weight
- Dumesnil
Dumesnil
29,449 corpus weight
- dump
dump
29,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dubitative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dubitative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dy.bi.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dubitative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dubitative is uncommon French at frequency #70,551 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dy.bi.ta.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de dubitatif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dubitative in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dubitative, spelled D-U-B-I-T-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dubitatif.
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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