votive
\vɔ.tiv\
The verdict
“votive” is uncommon French (frequency #75,345 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,345
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de votif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-votive · votive · French
votive · rank #75,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,345
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vivrière
Nearest frequency peer: vivrière (-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 « votive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- visitons
visitons
24,659 corpus weight
- vivifiante
vivifiante
24,658 corpus weight
- vivrière
vivrière
24,657 corpus weight
- votive
votive
24,656 corpus weight
- vouvoie
vouvoie
24,655 corpus weight
- vy
vy
24,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « votive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | votive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɔ.tiv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « votive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
votive is uncommon French at frequency #75,345 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɔ.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de votif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for votive, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 votive, spelled V-O-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de votif.
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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