repressive
"repressive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repressive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,227
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
Corpus desk
Index EN-repressive · repressive · English
repressive · rank #26,227 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,227
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH resonates
Nearest frequency peer: resonates (+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 “repressive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Reddy
Reddy
73,779 corpus weight
- remedial
remedial
73,776 corpus weight
- repressive
repressive
73,774 corpus weight
- resonates
resonates
73,773 corpus weight
- resourceful
resourceful
73,772 corpus weight
- Rosenthal
Rosenthal
73,770 corpus weight
What this shows “repressive” 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 | repressive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “repressive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around repressive, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,227 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for repressive, with forms such as "erpressive", "reperssive", and "reppressive". 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, "recessive", "repression", "regressive", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From repress + -ive. The correct English form is repressive, spelled R-E-P-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repressive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
Etymology
From repress + -ive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpressive
- reperssive
- reppressive
- represisve
- represive
- repressiev
- repressivve
- repressvie
- reprressive
- reprsesive
- rerpessive
- rperessive
- rrepressive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repressive - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).