legislative
/ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/
"legislative" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legislative” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,170
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-legislative · legislative · English
legislative · rank #4,170 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,170
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Justin
Nearest frequency peer: Justin (-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 “legislative”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- invest
invest
95,834 corpus weight
- jacket
jacket
95,833 corpus weight
- Justin
Justin
95,832 corpus weight
- legislative
legislative
95,831 corpus weight
- listing
listing
95,830 corpus weight
- manual
manual
95,829 corpus weight
What this shows “legislative” 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 | legislative |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “legislative”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around legislative (IPA /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,170 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for legislative, with forms such as "elgislative", "leggislative", and "legilsative". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "legislature", "legislate", "legislation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From legislate + -ive. The correct English form is legislative, spelled L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legislative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a legislative act
Although enormously influential in shaping the laws of the land, The House of Lords are not actually a legislative body.
Etymology
From legislate + -ive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgislative
- leggislative
- legilsative
- legisaltive
- legislaitve
- legislatiev
- legislativve
- legislattive
- legislatvie
- legisllative
- legisltaive
- legisslative
- legsilative
- leigslative
- lgeislative
- llegislative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legislative - 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 "legislative", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).