punitives
\py.ni.tiv\
The verdict
“punitives” is uncommon French (frequency #61,068 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de punitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punitives · punitives · French
punitives · rank #61,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,068
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punisse
Nearest frequency peer: punisse (-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 « punitives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Puebla
Puebla
38,936 corpus weight
- pugilat
pugilat
38,935 corpus weight
- punisse
punisse
38,934 corpus weight
- punitives
punitives
38,933 corpus weight
- pâleur
pâleur
38,932 corpus weight
- pénitent
pénitent
38,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punitives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punitives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.ni.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punitives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punitives is uncommon French at frequency #61,068 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.ni.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de punitif.".
Zero misspellings are on record for punitives in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is punitives, spelled P-U-N-I-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de punitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how punitives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces pensées sont souvent punitives ou ultra-exigeantes : elles nous jugent et nous évaluent.
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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