radioactiver
\ʁa.djo.ak.ti.ve\
The verdict
“radioactiver” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Irradier, rendre radioactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radioactiver · radioactiver · French
radioactiver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | radioactiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.djo.ak.ti.ve\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radioactiver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radioactiver is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.djo.ak.ti.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Irradier, rendre radioactif.".
radioactiver has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 radioactiver, spelled R-A-D-I-O-A-C-T-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Irradier, rendre radioactif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radioactiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’espèce humaine, radioactivée lors du cataclysme, l'avait été à des degrés différents.
Il est possible de se rendre compte, hypothétiquement, de la quantité de bromure de radium qu’il faudrait mettre en jeu pour radioactiver la totalité des eaux.
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.