successif
\syk.sɛ.sif\
The verdict
“successif” is uncommon French (frequency #69,451 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,451
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se fait par une marche continue, par un mouvement régulier, sans interruption.
Corpus desk
Index FR-successif · successif · French
successif · rank #69,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stringer
Nearest frequency peer: stringer (-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 « successif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- static
static
30,553 corpus weight
- strawberry
strawberry
30,552 corpus weight
- stringer
stringer
30,551 corpus weight
- successif
successif
30,550 corpus weight
- succédaient
succédaient
30,549 corpus weight
- supporteront
supporteront
30,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « successif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | successif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syk.sɛ.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « successif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
successif is uncommon French at frequency #69,451 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syk.sɛ.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
successif has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is successif, spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui se fait par une marche continue, par un mouvement régulier, sans interruption.
- 2Qualifie les choses qui se suivent de près, qui se succèdent les unes aux autres.
- 3Relatif à une succession, à un héritage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how successif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ordre successif des nuits et des jours.
Et Pausole observait debout les révélations successives d'un corps teinté, ferme, vivace, tandis qu'elle ouvrait tour à tour la chemisette bossue, la jupe monastique, le difforme pantalon blanc.
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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