furtivité
\fyʁ.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“furtivité” is uncommon French (frequency #68,303 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,303
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est furtif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furtivite · furtivité · French
furtivité · rank #68,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,303
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furets
Nearest frequency peer: furets (-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 « furtivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frondes
frondes
31,701 corpus weight
- fronça
fronça
31,700 corpus weight
- furets
furets
31,699 corpus weight
- furtivité
furtivité
31,698 corpus weight
- fusille
fusille
31,697 corpus weight
- futura
futura
31,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « furtivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furtivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fyʁ.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « furtivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
furtivité is uncommon French at frequency #68,303 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fyʁ.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for furtivité, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is furtivité, spelled F-U-R-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est furtif.
- 2Qualité d’un aéronef dont la signature est faible ou qui est difficile à détecter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how furtivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du Lac avait ses principes : ne rien demander à personne, ne jamais s'éterniser, trouver poésie dans la furtivité.
Le Tacit Blue était en fait uniquement destiné à valider un certain nombre d’avancées techniques dans le domaine de la furtivité, destinées à un appareil d’allure complètement différente, un autre triangle volant, le bombardier B-2.
This word in other languages
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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