suggestive
\syɡ.ʒɛs.tiv\
The verdict
“suggestive” is uncommon French (frequency #63,386 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,386
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de suggestif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suggestive · suggestive · French
suggestive · rank #63,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,386
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suivrais
Nearest frequency peer: suivrais (+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 « suggestive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subversives
subversives
36,618 corpus weight
- succulentes
succulentes
36,617 corpus weight
- suggestive
suggestive
36,615 corpus weight
- suivrais
suivrais
36,614 corpus weight
- suppliait
suppliait
36,613 corpus weight
- supporterait
supporterait
36,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suggestive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suggestive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syɡ.ʒɛs.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suggestive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suggestive is uncommon French at frequency #63,386 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syɡ.ʒɛs.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de suggestif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for suggestive in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suggestive, spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de suggestif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suggestive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que l’on nomme vulgairement « peintre réaliste » celui qui, par surabondance de matière, favorise l’échappement de l'idée, qui boursoufle ou décharpente la réalité sous la poussée et au bénéfice de quelque idée et ne retient des objets que ce qui en peut fournir l’expression la plus suggestive.
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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