rotatives
\ʁɔ.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“rotatives” is uncommon French (frequency #64,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,055
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de rotatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotatives · rotatives · French
rotatives · rank #64,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,055
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roturier
Nearest frequency peer: roturier (+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 « rotatives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rixes
rixes
35,950 corpus weight
- rotatives
rotatives
35,946 corpus weight
- roturier
roturier
35,945 corpus weight
- roturiers
roturiers
35,944 corpus weight
- rougeâtres
rougeâtres
35,943 corpus weight
- roupie
roupie
35,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rotatives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rotatives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rotatives is uncommon French at frequency #64,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɔ.ta.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de rotatif.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rotatives, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rotatives, spelled R-O-T-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de rotatif.
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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