possessivité
\pɔ.se.si.vi.te\
The verdict
“possessivité” is uncommon French (frequency #81,450 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,450
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère, comportement possessif d'une personne, besoin de s'approprier quelqu'un, de le posséder en exclusivité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-possessivite · possessivité · French
possessivité · rank #81,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,450
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poseraient
Nearest frequency peer: poseraient (-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 « possessivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pochoirs
pochoirs
18,555 corpus weight
- pommette
pommette
18,553 corpus weight
- poseraient
poseraient
18,552 corpus weight
- possessivité
possessivité
18,551 corpus weight
- Poura
Poura
18,550 corpus weight
- poussais
poussais
18,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « possessivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | possessivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.se.si.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « possessivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
possessivité is uncommon French at frequency #81,450 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.se.si.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère, comportement possessif d'une personne, besoin de s'approprier quelqu'un, de le posséder en exclusivité.".
possessivité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is possessivité, spelled P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère, comportement possessif d'une personne, besoin de s'approprier quelqu'un, de le posséder en exclusivité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how possessivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne supporte plus sa jalousie et sa possessivité.
Et tu vois, malgré l’extraordinaire de la situation, je n’ai pas la force d’échapper à des choses banales comme la jalousie et la possessivité, et tout ce simulacre.
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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