électives
\e.lɛk.tiv\
The verdict
“électives” is uncommon French (frequency #54,351 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,351
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de électif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-electives · électives · French
électives · rank #54,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électif
Nearest frequency peer: électif (-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 “électives”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- échauffouré…
échauffourées
45,653 corpus weight
- écotaxe
écotaxe
45,652 corpus weight
- électif
électif
45,651 corpus weight
- électives
électives
45,650 corpus weight
- électroniqu…
électroniquement
45,649 corpus weight
- émerveillée
émerveillée
45,648 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “électives” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | électives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “électives” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
électives is uncommon French at frequency #54,351 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.lɛk.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de électif.".
électives has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is électives, spelled É-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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