olfactives
\ɔl.fak.tiv\
The verdict
“olfactives” is uncommon French (frequency #70,076 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,076
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de olfactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-olfactives · olfactives · French
olfactives · rank #70,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,076
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Orbigny
Nearest frequency peer: Orbigny (+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 « olfactives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Octavien
Octavien
29,929 corpus weight
- officinale
officinale
29,927 corpus weight
- olfactives
olfactives
29,925 corpus weight
- Orbigny
Orbigny
29,924 corpus weight
- ordinary
ordinary
29,923 corpus weight
- Organ
Organ
29,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « olfactives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olfactives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔl.fak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « olfactives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
olfactives is uncommon French at frequency #70,076 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔl.fak.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de olfactif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for olfactives, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is olfactives, spelled O-L-F-A-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de olfactif.
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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