motiv
The verdict
“motiv” is uncommon French (frequency #56,761 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,761
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motif, ce qui motive un acte, cause.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motiv · motiv · French
motiv · rank #56,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,761
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mota
Nearest frequency peer: mota (-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 « motiv »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montrais
montrais
43,242 corpus weight
- mota
mota
43,241 corpus weight
- motiv
motiv
43,240 corpus weight
- mouillent
mouillent
43,239 corpus weight
- moulinette
moulinette
43,238 corpus weight
- mousquet
mousquet
43,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motiv » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motiv |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motiv » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motiv is uncommon French at frequency #56,761 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for motiv, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is motiv, spelled M-O-T-I-V.
Definition
- 1Motif, ce qui motive un acte, cause.
- 2Motif de décoration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motiv appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jako vandalismus se označuje svévolné poškozování a ničení veřejného i soukromého majetku či podobných statků, které nepřináší pachateli žádné materiální obohacení a pro které pachatel zpravidla nemá žádný motiv.
barevné motivy a veselé vzory.
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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