formative
\fɔʁ.ma.tiv\
The verdict
“formative” is uncommon French (frequency #88,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,641
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de formatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formative · formative · French
formative · rank #88,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,641
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forcenée
Nearest frequency peer: forcenée (-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 « formative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- floraisons
floraisons
11,363 corpus weight
- forcenée
forcenée
11,361 corpus weight
- formative
formative
11,360 corpus weight
- fourmilleme…
fourmillements
11,359 corpus weight
- FranceAgriM…
FranceAgriMer
11,358 corpus weight
- franchissons
franchissons
11,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « formative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formative is uncommon French at frequency #88,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔʁ.ma.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de formatif.".
Zero misspellings are on record for formative in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is formative, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de formatif.
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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