singulatif
\sɛ̃.ɡy.la.tif\
The verdict
“singulatif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de singulier venant d’une forme plurielle ou collective.
Corpus desk
Index FR-singulatif · singulatif · French
singulatif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singulatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ɡy.la.tif\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « singulatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
singulatif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.ɡy.la.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for singulatif, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is singulatif, spelled S-I-N-G-U-L-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Forme de singulier venant d’une forme plurielle ou collective.
- 2Singulier marqué morphologiquement tandis que le pluriel ne l’est pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how singulatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En anglais, pour ne désigner qu’une partie de ces collectifs, il faut utiliser une structure s’apparentant à un singulatif : a piece of news « une nouvelle » mais non *a news (et encore moins *a new).
Le singulatif ne s’applique ordinairement qu’à des noms non-comptables, le collectif ne s’appliquant quant à lui qu’à des noms comptables.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.