normativité

\nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\

/\nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\/ noun

The verdict

“normativité” is uncommon French (frequency #99,424 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,424
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère normatif, caractère de ce qui est conforme ou rend conforme à la norme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-normativite · normativité · French

normativité · rank #99,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,424
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nords

Nearest frequency peer: nords (-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 « normativité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « normativité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for normativité
PropertyValue
Headwordnormativité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#99,424
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « normativité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.normativitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « nords » (#99,423), « nominativement » (#99,422), « Nouadhibou » (#99,426). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « normativité » est au #99,424. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

normativité is uncommon French at frequency #99,424 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère normatif, caractère de ce qui est conforme ou rend conforme à la norme.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for normativité, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is normativité, spelled N-O-R-M-A-T-I-V-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère normatif, caractère de ce qui est conforme ou rend conforme à la norme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how normativité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a sans doute, de la part de Xavier Dolan, une certaine naïveté à réduire ainsi le personnage de Laurence au rôle de fer de lance d’une campagne contre la normativité sociale.
  2. Donc pour terminer, il est évident que c’est un acte d’agression néocolonial, de banditisme international, en rupture totale avec la légalité et la normativité des Nations Unies.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "normativité"?
"normativité" is spelled N-O-R-M-A-T-I-V-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\.
What does "normativité" mean?
As a noun, "normativité" means: Caractère normatif, caractère de ce qui est conforme ou rend conforme à la norme.
How do you pronounce "normativité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "normativité" is \nɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "normativité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "normativité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list