missives
\mi.siv\
The verdict
“missives” is uncommon French (frequency #60,969 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,969
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de missive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-missives · missives · French
missives · rank #60,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitrailleurs
Nearest frequency peer: mitrailleurs (+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 « missives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- midget
midget
39,036 corpus weight
- miko
miko
39,035 corpus weight
- Milot
Milot
39,034 corpus weight
- missives
missives
39,032 corpus weight
- mitrailleurs
mitrailleurs
39,031 corpus weight
- monoculture
monoculture
39,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « missives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | missives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.siv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « missives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
missives is uncommon French at frequency #60,969 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de missive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for missives, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is missives, spelled M-I-S-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de missive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how missives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne sachant pas comment tourneraient les choses, il n’avait pas voulu que les missionnaires le suivissent ; mais il se consolait de leur absence par de pieuses missives.
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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