fautives
\fo.tiv\
The verdict
“fautives” is uncommon French (frequency #84,798 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,798
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fautif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fautives · fautives · French
fautives · rank #84,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,798
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faufilant
Nearest frequency peer: faufilant (-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 « fautives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantomatiqu…
fantomatiques
15,207 corpus weight
- fatty
fatty
15,205 corpus weight
- faufilant
faufilant
15,204 corpus weight
- fautives
fautives
15,203 corpus weight
- feldspath
feldspath
15,202 corpus weight
- fiera
fiera
15,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fautives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fautives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fo.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fautives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fautives is uncommon French at frequency #84,798 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fo.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fautif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fautives, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 fautives, spelled F-A-U-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fautif.
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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