sensitive
\sɑ̃.si.tiv\
The verdict
“sensitive” is uncommon French (frequency #54,902 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,902
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mimosa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sensitive · sensitive · French
sensitive · rank #54,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,902
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semonce
Nearest frequency peer: semonce (-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 « sensitive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seiche
seiche
45,102 corpus weight
- sema
sema
45,101 corpus weight
- semonce
semonce
45,100 corpus weight
- sensitive
sensitive
45,099 corpus weight
- sima
sima
45,097 corpus weight
- Sissy
Sissy
45,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sensitive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sensitive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.si.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sensitive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sensitive is uncommon French at frequency #54,902 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.si.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mimosa.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sensitive, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sensitive, spelled S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Mimosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sensitive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ursus avait l’intrépidité d’une mouche et l’impassibilité d’une sensitive.
Chère sensitive emportée par un orage, pourquoi t’es-tu déplantée du seul terrain où tu pourrais développer tes parfums ?
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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