extractive
\ɛks.tʁak.tiv\
The verdict
“extractive” is uncommon French (frequency #95,891 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,891
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de extractif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extractive · extractive · French
extractive · rank #95,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,891
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expliquiez
Nearest frequency peer: expliquiez (-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 « extractive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exhortons
exhortons
4,113 corpus weight
- expect
expect
4,112 corpus weight
- expliquiez
expliquiez
4,111 corpus weight
- extractive
extractive
4,110 corpus weight
- extrayant
extrayant
4,109 corpus weight
- facilitateu…
facilitateurs
4,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extractive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extractive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extractive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extractive is uncommon French at frequency #95,891 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.tʁak.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de extractif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for extractive in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is extractive, spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de extractif.
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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