fédérative
\fe.de.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“fédérative” is uncommon French (frequency #63,776 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,776
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fédératif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-federative · fédérative · French
fédérative · rank #63,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fréquentais
Nearest frequency peer: fréquentais (-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 « fédérative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Freetown
Freetown
36,229 corpus weight
- freudien
freudien
36,228 corpus weight
- frémit
frémit
36,227 corpus weight
- fréquentais
fréquentais
36,226 corpus weight
- fédérative
fédérative
36,225 corpus weight
- féret
féret
36,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fédérative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fédérative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.de.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fédérative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fédérative is uncommon French at frequency #63,776 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.de.ʁa.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fédératif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fédérative in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fédérative, spelled F-É-D-É-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fédératif.
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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