suggestif
\syɡ.ʒɛs.tif\
The verdict
“suggestif” is uncommon French (frequency #71,093 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,093
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre à suggérer, en particulier avec un sous-entendu sensuel ou érotique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suggestif · suggestif · French
suggestif · rank #71,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,093
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sudètes
Nearest frequency peer: sudètes (-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 « suggestif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sublet
sublet
28,911 corpus weight
- subordonner
subordonner
28,910 corpus weight
- sudètes
sudètes
28,909 corpus weight
- suggestif
suggestif
28,908 corpus weight
- suggestives
suggestives
28,907 corpus weight
- supplétifs
supplétifs
28,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suggestif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suggestif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syɡ.ʒɛs.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suggestif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suggestif is uncommon French at frequency #71,093 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syɡ.ʒɛs.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for suggestif in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is suggestif, spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre à suggérer, en particulier avec un sous-entendu sensuel ou érotique.
- 2Qui fait rêver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suggestif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tard dans la soirée, les danseurs commencèrent à s’animer. Il y eut alors quelques essais de « upa upa », qui est d’origine tahitienne, suggestive et voluptueuse.
Des représentations très suggestives montrent un monde romain assez libéré.
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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