expéditive
\ɛks.pe.di.tiv\
The verdict
“expéditive” is uncommon French (frequency #50,823 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,823
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de expéditif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expeditive · expéditive · French
expéditive · rank #50,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,823
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expansionniste
Nearest frequency peer: expansionniste (-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 « expéditive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excitantes
excitantes
49,181 corpus weight
- exigerait
exigerait
49,180 corpus weight
- expansionni…
expansionniste
49,179 corpus weight
- expéditive
expéditive
49,178 corpus weight
- extincteurs
extincteurs
49,177 corpus weight
- fatiguez
fatiguez
49,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expéditive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expéditive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pe.di.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expéditive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expéditive is uncommon French at frequency #50,823 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.pe.di.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de expéditif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for expéditive, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is expéditive, spelled E-X-P-É-D-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de expéditif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expéditive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et elles le sont, hyperdélicates, ces affaires, lorsque ce sont des affaires de famille dans une famille où, selon une fatalité qui ressemble à une loi, les femmes n’épousent jamais l’homme qu’elles aiment, lequel homme, devenu gênant, est physiquement éliminé de la façon la plus expéditive.
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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