perceptive
/pəˈsɛptɪv/
"perceptive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“perceptive” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,414
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
Corpus desk
Index EN-perceptive · perceptive · English
perceptive · rank #29,414 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,414
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH peering
Nearest frequency peer: peering (-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 “perceptive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- palazzo
palazzo
70,591 corpus weight
- panting
panting
70,590 corpus weight
- peering
peering
70,588 corpus weight
- perceptive
perceptive
70,587 corpus weight
- peri
peri
70,586 corpus weight
- phosphoryla…
phosphorylation
70,584 corpus weight
What this shows “perceptive” 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 | perceptive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pəˈsɛptɪv/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “perceptive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around perceptive (IPA /pəˈsɛptɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,414 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for perceptive, with forms such as "eprceptive", "pecreptive", and "percceptive". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "perceive", "perception", "percentile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is perceptive, spelled P-E-R-C-E-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perceptive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprceptive
- pecreptive
- percceptive
- percepitve
- percepptive
- perceptiev
- perceptivve
- percepttive
- perceptvie
- percetpive
- percpetive
- perecptive
- perrceptive
- pperceptive
- preceptive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perceptive - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "perceptive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).