punitifs
\py.ni.tif\
The verdict
“punitifs” is uncommon French (frequency #83,285 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de punitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punitifs · punitifs · French
punitifs · rank #83,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,285
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pune
Nearest frequency peer: pune (-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 « punitifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préfigurant
préfigurant
16,720 corpus weight
- PTR
PTR
16,718 corpus weight
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
- punitifs
punitifs
16,716 corpus weight
- pura
pura
16,715 corpus weight
- pythons
pythons
16,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punitifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punitifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.ni.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punitifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punitifs is uncommon French at frequency #83,285 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.ni.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de punitif.".
Zero misspellings are on record for punitifs in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is punitifs, spelled P-U-N-I-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de punitif.
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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