inactives
\i.nak.tiv\
The verdict
“inactives” is uncommon French (frequency #68,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,360
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de inactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inactives · inactives · French
inactives · rank #68,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,360
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH improvisent
Nearest frequency peer: improvisent (-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 « inactives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- implantent
implantent
31,644 corpus weight
- impliquaient
impliquaient
31,643 corpus weight
- improvisent
improvisent
31,642 corpus weight
- inactives
inactives
31,641 corpus weight
- include
include
31,640 corpus weight
- Indochinois
Indochinois
31,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inactives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inactives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inactives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inactives is uncommon French at frequency #68,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.nak.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de inactif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for inactives in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inactives, spelled I-N-A-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de inactif.
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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