gustatif
\ɡys.ta.tif\
The verdict
“gustatif” is uncommon French (frequency #55,324 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,324
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au goût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gustatif · gustatif · French
gustatif · rank #55,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,324
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guinées
Nearest frequency peer: guinées (-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 « gustatif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guillotière
Guillotière
44,679 corpus weight
- guinées
guinées
44,678 corpus weight
- gustatif
gustatif
44,677 corpus weight
- gustatives
gustatives
44,676 corpus weight
- guérillas
guérillas
44,675 corpus weight
- gémissant
gémissant
44,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gustatif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gustatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡys.ta.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gustatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gustatif is uncommon French at frequency #55,324 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡys.ta.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport au goût.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gustatif in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 gustatif, spelled G-U-S-T-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au goût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gustatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’agroalimentaire saupoudre autant de sel partout, c’est parce qu’il est à la fois un exhausteur de goût et un formidable moteur gustatif qui stimule l’appétit.
Car, finalement, qu’est-ce qui différencie vraiment telle marque plutôt que telle autre ? Quel critère permettrait d’être sûr et certain de ne pas passer à côté de « la » moutarde, celle qui changera votre expérience gustative irrémédiablement ?
Synonyms
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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