réflexif
\ʁe.flɛk.sif\
The verdict
“réflexif” is uncommon French (frequency #74,354 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,354
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la réflexion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reflexif · réflexif · French
réflexif · rank #74,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récupérateurs
Nearest frequency peer: récupérateurs (-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 « réflexif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réaffirmati…
réaffirmation
25,650 corpus weight
- récitait
récitait
25,649 corpus weight
- récupérateu…
récupérateurs
25,648 corpus weight
- réflexif
réflexif
25,647 corpus weight
- référendair…
référendaires
25,646 corpus weight
- régenter
régenter
25,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réflexif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réflexif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.flɛk.sif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réflexif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réflexif is uncommon French at frequency #74,354 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.flɛk.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
réflexif has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is réflexif, spelled R-É-F-L-E-X-I-F.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la réflexion.
- 2Relatif au retour de la pensée sur elle-même. Qui se prend soi-même pour objet.
- 3Réfléchi.
- 4Relatif à la réflexivité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réflexif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pression des événements les amena à prendre position. Certes, leur engagement ne fut qu’épidermique ; à aucun moment, ils ne se sentirent fondamentalement concernés ; leur conscience politique, pour autant qu’elle existât en tant que telle, comme forme organisée et réflexive, et non comme magma d’opinions plus ou moins orientées, se situait, pensaient-…
Toute augmentation de l’activité réflexive, stimule, par nature, les tendances schizoïdes. La réflexion est un isolement.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).