expectative
\ɛks.pɛk.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“expectative” is uncommon French (frequency #57,257 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,257
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attente fondée sur quelque promesse ou espérance, sur des probabilités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expectative · expectative · French
expectative · rank #57,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,257
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH examinateurs
Nearest frequency peer: examinateurs (-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 « expectative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exaltante
exaltante
42,746 corpus weight
- examinateurs
examinateurs
42,745 corpus weight
- expectative
expectative
42,744 corpus weight
- expliquons
expliquons
42,743 corpus weight
- extinctions
extinctions
42,742 corpus weight
- extrader
extrader
42,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expectative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expectative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pɛk.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expectative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expectative is uncommon French at frequency #57,257 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.pɛk.ta.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attente fondée sur quelque promesse ou espérance, sur des probabilités.".
expectative has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 expectative, spelled E-X-P-E-C-T-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Attente fondée sur quelque promesse ou espérance, sur des probabilités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expectative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mademoiselle Donis a sa fortune, moi j’ai mon nom et ma position : c’est un échange. — Quelle position ? — Celle que j’aurai et qui est d’autant plus belle qu’elle n’existe qu’en expectative.
La clientèle étant réfractère à ces prix, supérieurs de 50 % à ceux qui se pratiquaient au début du mois de septembre, les acheteurs restent dans l’expectative et ne passent leurs ordres que par petits paquets et au jour le jour.
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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