régressive
\ʁe.ɡʁɛ.siv\
The verdict
“régressive” is uncommon French (frequency #55,577 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,577
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de régressif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regressive · régressive · French
régressive · rank #55,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,577
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réparées
Nearest frequency peer: réparées (+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 « régressive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- routard
routard
44,429 corpus weight
- Rubicon
Rubicon
44,428 corpus weight
- Rufin
Rufin
44,427 corpus weight
- réaménagé
réaménagé
44,426 corpus weight
- régressive
régressive
44,424 corpus weight
- réparées
réparées
44,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « régressive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régressive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡʁɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « régressive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
régressive is uncommon French at frequency #55,577 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁe.ɡʁɛ.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de régressif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for régressive in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 régressive, spelled R-É-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de régressif.
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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