législatif

/\le.ʒis.la.tif\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,266

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

législatif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui fait les lois. Pronounced \le.ʒis.la.tif\. It ranks #8,266 in French word frequency. Often confused with législation and législative.

Key facts for législatif
PropertyValue
Headwordlégislatif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\le.ʒis.la.tif\
Letters10
Frequency rank#8,266
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of législatif in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for législatif is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ʒis.la.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,266 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for législatif, with forms such as "legislatif", "lgéislatif", and "llégislatif". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "législation", "législative", "législatifs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is législatif, spelled L-É-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui fait les lois.
  2. 2
    Qui est de la nature des lois ; qui a le caractère d’une loi.
  3. 3
    Qui est relatif aux lois.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: legislatif,lgéislatif,llégislatif,léggislatif,légilsatif,légisaltif,législaitf,législatfi,législatiff,législattif,législlatif,législtaif,légisslatif,légsilatif,léigslatif,élgislatif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for législatif

Misspelling Variants of "législatif"

legislatif10lgéislatif10llégislatif11léggislatif11légilsatif10légisaltif10législaitf10législatfi10
Misspelling Variants of "législatif"

Frequency rank: #8,266 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "législatif"?
"législatif" is spelled L-É-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \le.ʒis.la.tif\.
What does "législatif" mean?
As an adj, "législatif" means: Qui fait les lois.
What words are commonly confused with "législatif"?
"législatif" is commonly confused with "législation", "législative", "législatifs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "législatif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "législatif" is \le.ʒis.la.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "législatif" come from?
"législatif" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.