électifs
\e.lɛk.tif\
The verdict
“électifs” is uncommon French (frequency #64,892 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,892
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de électif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-electifs · électifs · French
électifs · rank #64,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH églantine
Nearest frequency peer: églantine (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “électifs”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- éclairait
éclairait
35,112 corpus weight
- éclairera
éclairera
35,111 corpus weight
- églantine
églantine
35,110 corpus weight
- électifs
électifs
35,109 corpus weight
- élèveront
élèveront
35,108 corpus weight
- émoussé
émoussé
35,107 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “électifs” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | électifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “électifs” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
électifs is uncommon French at frequency #64,892 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.lɛk.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de électif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for électifs in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is électifs, spelled É-L-E-C-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de électif.
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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