successive
\syk.sɛ.siv\
The verdict
“successive” is uncommon French (frequency #52,370 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,370
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de successif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-successive · successive · French
successive · rank #52,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,370
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stupidement
Nearest frequency peer: stupidement (-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 « successive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stratford
Stratford
47,633 corpus weight
- stupidement
stupidement
47,632 corpus weight
- successive
successive
47,631 corpus weight
- succinct
succinct
47,630 corpus weight
- succion
succion
47,629 corpus weight
- sultanat
sultanat
47,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « successive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | successive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syk.sɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « successive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
successive is uncommon French at frequency #52,370 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syk.sɛ.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de successif.".
successive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is successive, spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de successif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how successive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’analyse successive des espaces sensibles de la géopolitique est une opération indispensable parce qu’elle permet de segmentariser la complexité et de la rendre ainsi plus accessible.
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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