transitif

/\tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,140

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

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transitif is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit d’un verbe, ou d’un emploi d’un verbe, qui accepte ou attend un complément d’objet. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\.

Key facts for transitif
PropertyValue
Headwordtransitif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\
Letters9
Frequency rank#64,140
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of transitif in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for transitif is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,140 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for transitif in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is transitif, spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit d’un verbe, ou d’un emploi d’un verbe, qui accepte ou attend un complément d’objet.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’un verbe, ou d’un emploi d’un verbe, qui accepte ou attend un complément d’objet.
  3. 3
    Se dit d’un verbe, ou d’un emploi d’un verbe, qui accepte ou attend un complément d’objet.
  4. 4
    Se dit d'une cause ou d'une action exercée par un agent (sujet) sur un objet extérieur produisant une conséquence sur cet objet sans que l'agent ne soit affecté par l'action.
  5. 5
    Se dit d’une relation qui s’appliquant d’un premier élément à un second et du second à un troisième, s’applique également du premier au troisième. Formellement, la relation ℛ est telle que : si (x ℛ y) et si (y ℛ z), alors (x ℛ z).
  6. 6
    Dans les langues inuites et yupikes, se dit d’un verbe dont la conjugaison utilise des désinences impliquant deux actants (biactancielles), se référant généralement à un agent et à un patient.

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Frequency rank: #64,140 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "transitif"?
"transitif" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\.
What does "transitif" mean?
As an adj, "transitif" means: Se dit d’un verbe, ou d’un emploi d’un verbe, qui accepte ou attend un complément d’objet.
How do you pronounce "transitif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "transitif" is \tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "transitif" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.