possessifs
\pɔ.se.sif\
The verdict
“possessifs” is uncommon French (frequency #67,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,012
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de possessif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-possessifs · possessifs · French
possessifs · rank #67,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,012
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portoricaine
Nearest frequency peer: portoricaine (-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 « possessifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- populismes
populismes
32,992 corpus weight
- Portel
Portel
32,991 corpus weight
- portoricaine
portoricaine
32,990 corpus weight
- possessifs
possessifs
32,989 corpus weight
- poterne
poterne
32,988 corpus weight
- PPL
PPL
32,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « possessifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | possessifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.se.sif\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « possessifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
possessifs is uncommon French at frequency #67,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.se.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de possessif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for possessifs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is possessifs, spelled P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de possessif.
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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