réceptive

/\ʁe.sɛp.tiv\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,102

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

réceptive is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de réceptif. Pronounced \ʁe.sɛp.tiv\.

Key facts for réceptive
PropertyValue
Headwordréceptive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁe.sɛp.tiv\
Letters9
Frequency rank#51,102
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of réceptive in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for réceptive is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.sɛp.tiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,102 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de réceptif.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for réceptive in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is réceptive, spelled R-É-C-E-P-T-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de réceptif.

Frequency rank: #51,102 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réceptive"?
"réceptive" is spelled R-É-C-E-P-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.sɛp.tiv\.
What does "réceptive" mean?
As an adj, "réceptive" means: Féminin singulier de réceptif.
How do you pronounce "réceptive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réceptive" is \ʁe.sɛp.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "réceptive" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.