assistive
/əˈsɪstɪv/
"assistive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assistive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,073
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability
Corpus desk
Index EN-assistive · assistive · English
assistive · rank #48,073 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,073
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aspergillus
Nearest frequency peer: aspergillus (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “assistive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Ashburn
Ashburn
51,931 corpus weight
- asides
asides
51,930 corpus weight
- aspergillus
aspergillus
51,929 corpus weight
- assistive
assistive
51,928 corpus weight
- audibly
audibly
51,927 corpus weight
- Ayurvedic
Ayurvedic
51,926 corpus weight
What this shows “assistive” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assistive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈsɪstɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “assistive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around assistive (IPA /əˈsɪstɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,073 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for assistive, with forms such as "asisstive", "asistive", and "assisitve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "assisting", "assertive", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From assist + -ive. The correct English form is assistive, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assistive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“The use of an assistive device should not only be considered in solely biomechanical terms,” the I.P.C. said in a statement.
Etymology
From assist + -ive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asisstive
- asistive
- assisitve
- assisstive
- assistiev
- assistivve
- assisttive
- assistvie
- assitsive
- asssitive
- sasistive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assistive - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assistive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).