sportivité
\spɔʁ.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“sportivité” is uncommon French (frequency #65,539 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,539
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractéristique sportive d'une personne, d'un objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sportivite · sportivité · French
sportivité · rank #65,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,539
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spoliés
Nearest frequency peer: spoliés (-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 « sportivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spiruline
spiruline
34,465 corpus weight
- SPL
SPL
34,464 corpus weight
- spoliés
spoliés
34,463 corpus weight
- sportivité
sportivité
34,462 corpus weight
- Spree
Spree
34,461 corpus weight
- stalactites
stalactites
34,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sportivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sportivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔʁ.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sportivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sportivité is uncommon French at frequency #65,539 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɔʁ.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sportivité 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sportivité, spelled S-P-O-R-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractéristique sportive d'une personne, d'un objet.
- 2Ensemble de traits éthiques et personnels considérés comme dignes d'un athlète, dont l'honnêteté, la courtoisie envers les opposants et l'acceptation gracieuse de la victoire ou la défaite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sportivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les roadsters associent plaisir, sportivité et économie.
Une bonne sportivité repose autant sur l'engagement au fair play, le comportement éthique et l'intégrité de l'entraîneur que de l'athlète.
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); 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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