obstructive
\ɔp.stʁyk.tiv\
The verdict
“obstructive” is uncommon French (frequency #86,971 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,971
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de obstructif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obstructive · obstructive · French
obstructive · rank #86,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,971
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsédées
Nearest frequency peer: obsédées (+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 « obstructive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- novus
novus
13,033 corpus weight
- nécessitera…
nécessiteraient
13,032 corpus weight
- obstructive
obstructive
13,030 corpus weight
- obsédées
obsédées
13,029 corpus weight
- Occam
Occam
13,028 corpus weight
- occultent
occultent
13,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obstructive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obstructive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.stʁyk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obstructive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obstructive is uncommon French at frequency #86,971 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔp.stʁyk.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de obstructif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for obstructive, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obstructive, spelled O-B-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de obstructif.
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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