itératif
\i.te.ʁa.tif\
The verdict
“itératif” is uncommon French (frequency #83,063 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,063
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est répété, fait plusieurs fois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iteratif · itératif · French
itératif · rank #83,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,063
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Isra
Nearest frequency peer: Isra (-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 « itératif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- isolantes
isolantes
16,941 corpus weight
- isothermes
isothermes
16,940 corpus weight
- Isra
Isra
16,939 corpus weight
- itératif
itératif
16,938 corpus weight
- Jahre
Jahre
16,936 corpus weight
- jalouser
jalouser
16,935 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « itératif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | itératif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.te.ʁa.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « itératif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
itératif is uncommon French at frequency #83,063 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.te.ʁa.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
itératif doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is itératif, spelled I-T-É-R-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est répété, fait plusieurs fois.
- 2Qui est fait une 2e, une troisième ou quatrième fois.
- 3Qui exprime la répétition de l’action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how itératif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les méthodes itératives donnent, en théorie, la solution x d'un système linéaire après un nombre infini d’itérations. A chaque pas, elles nécessitent le calcul du résidu du système.
Faire des mandements itératifs.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).