proactive
\pʁɔ.ak.tiv\
The verdict
“proactive” is uncommon French (frequency #54,806 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,806
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de proactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proactive · proactive · French
proactive · rank #54,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,806
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prin
Nearest frequency peer: prin (-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 « proactive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pradel
Pradel
45,198 corpus weight
- priment
priment
45,197 corpus weight
- prin
prin
45,196 corpus weight
- proactive
proactive
45,195 corpus weight
- prohibitifs
prohibitifs
45,193 corpus weight
- promettez
promettez
45,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proactive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proactive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proactive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proactive is uncommon French at frequency #54,806 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.ak.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de proactif.".
proactive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is proactive, spelled P-R-O-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de proactif.
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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