primitivité
\pʁi.mi.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“primitivité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est primitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-primitivite · primitivité · French
primitivité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primitivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.mi.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
primitivité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.mi.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui est primitif.".
primitivité has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 primitivité, spelled P-R-I-M-I-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est primitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how primitivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeune Seïhi qui parlait ainsi avait attiré mon attention par la primitivité de ses traits et l’éclat sournois de ses grands yeux fauves.
Le bonhomme devint un « psychosynthétique ». Il fixait le rêve, inscrivait la pensée et se rattachait, par dessus les âges, à la primitivité fraîche et sublime des amateurs d'écorces d'arbres.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.