extractives
\ɛks.tʁak.tiv\
The verdict
“extractives” is uncommon French (frequency #65,147 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,147
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de extractif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extractives · extractives · French
extractives · rank #65,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,147
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH externaliser
Nearest frequency peer: externaliser (-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 « extractives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excédée
excédée
34,857 corpus weight
- expiatoire
expiatoire
34,856 corpus weight
- externaliser
externaliser
34,855 corpus weight
- extractives
extractives
34,854 corpus weight
- Fairbanks
Fairbanks
34,853 corpus weight
- Falstaff
Falstaff
34,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extractives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extractives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extractives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extractives is uncommon French at frequency #65,147 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.tʁak.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de extractif.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for extractives, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is extractives, spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel 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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