invasif
\ɛ̃.va.zif\
The verdict
“invasif” is uncommon French (frequency #50,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,910
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une invasion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-invasif · invasif · French
invasif · rank #50,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intrépides
Nearest frequency peer: intrépides (-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 « invasif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insinues
insinues
49,095 corpus weight
- intergouver…
intergouvernementale
49,094 corpus weight
- intrépides
intrépides
49,092 corpus weight
- invasif
invasif
49,091 corpus weight
- invective
invective
49,090 corpus weight
- irritants
irritants
49,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « invasif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | invasif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.va.zif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « invasif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
invasif is uncommon French at frequency #50,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.va.zif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
invasif doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is invasif, spelled I-N-V-A-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une invasion.
- 2Qui a la propriété d’infiltrer et de détruire activement le tissu avoisinant.
- 3Destructeur, qui nécessite une opération.
- 4Qualifie des tumeurs ou des cellules tumorales capables de migrer pour envahir d’autres tissus.
- 5Se dit d’une espèce introduite dans un autre écosystème que son écosystème d’origine et le bouleverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how invasif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caractère invasif de ces guerres.
Désireux d’inciter la jeunesse hongkongaise à s’exprimer, il se donnait pour mission de protéger la démocratie de la politique invasive du Parti communiste chinois (PCC), qui a repris les rênes de Hong Kong en 1997, après cent ans de gouvernance britannique.
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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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