perceptive
\pɛʁ.sɛp.tiv\
The verdict
“perceptive” is uncommon French (frequency #85,123 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,123
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de perceptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perceptive · perceptive · French
perceptive · rank #85,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,123
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pentagon
Nearest frequency peer: Pentagon (-2 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 « perceptive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pelées
pelées
14,882 corpus weight
- pendaient
pendaient
14,881 corpus weight
- Pentagon
Pentagon
14,880 corpus weight
- perceptive
perceptive
14,878 corpus weight
- persuadent
persuadent
14,875 corpus weight
- pesés
pesés
14,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perceptive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perceptive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɛp.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perceptive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perceptive is uncommon French at frequency #85,123 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.sɛp.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de perceptif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for perceptive, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is perceptive, spelled P-E-R-C-E-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de perceptif.
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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