persuasive
\pɛʁ.sɥa.ziv\
The verdict
“persuasive” is uncommon French (frequency #64,681 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,681
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de persuasif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persuasive · persuasive · French
persuasive · rank #64,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,681
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesage
Nearest frequency peer: pesage (+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 « persuasive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peigner
peigner
35,324 corpus weight
- persanes
persanes
35,322 corpus weight
- persuasive
persuasive
35,320 corpus weight
- pesage
pesage
35,319 corpus weight
- pester
pester
35,318 corpus weight
- pharmacolog…
pharmacologique
35,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persuasive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persuasive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɥa.ziv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persuasive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persuasive is uncommon French at frequency #64,681 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.sɥa.ziv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de persuasif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for persuasive in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is persuasive, spelled P-E-R-S-U-A-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de persuasif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how persuasive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La clameur du désespoir de la femme est si persuasive, qu’elle arrache le pardon qui se trouve au cœur de tous les amoureux, quand la femme est jeune, jolie et décolletée à sortir par le haut de sa robe en costume d’Ève.
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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