sensitif
\sɑ̃.si.tif\
The verdict
“sensitif” is uncommon French (frequency #79,739 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,739
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte aux sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sensitif · sensitif · French
sensitif · rank #79,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,739
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sensationnell…
Nearest frequency peer: sensationnelles (-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 « sensitif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seneca
Seneca
20,265 corpus weight
- seng
seng
20,264 corpus weight
- sensationne…
sensationnelles
20,263 corpus weight
- sensitif
sensitif
20,262 corpus weight
- servet
servet
20,260 corpus weight
- sheep
sheep
20,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sensitif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sensitif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.si.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sensitif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sensitif is uncommon French at frequency #79,739 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃.si.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sensitif in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sensitif, spelled S-E-N-S-I-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte aux sens.
- 2Qui a la faculté de sentir.
- 3Qui est particulièrement sensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sensitif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En résumé, pour connaître une chose, l'entendement en comprend, au moins dans une certaine mesure, la nécessité ; tandis que les facultés sensitives connaissent, sans comprendre, c'est-à-dire sans se rendre compte de la nécessité de ce qu'elles connaissent.
Pour Augustin cependant, ce n'est pas seulement la science de la vie sensitive ou de l'expérience, mais toute science qui est vie et qui est bonne.
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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