seductive
/sɪˈdʌktɪv/
"seductive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seductive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,650
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attractive, alluring, tempting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seductive · seductive · English
seductive · rank #21,650 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Scully
Nearest frequency peer: Scully (-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 “seductive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sash
sash
78,354 corpus weight
- scrambling
scrambling
78,353 corpus weight
- Scully
Scully
78,352 corpus weight
- seductive
seductive
78,351 corpus weight
- Sega
Sega
78,350 corpus weight
- segmentation
segmentation
78,349 corpus weight
What this shows “seductive” 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 | seductive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɪˈdʌktɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “seductive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around seductive (IPA /sɪˈdʌktɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,650 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Attractive, alluring, tempting.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for seductive, with forms such as "esductive", "sdeuctive", and "sedcutive". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "selective", "sedative", "seduction", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive. The correct English form is seductive, spelled S-E-D-U-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Attractive, alluring, tempting.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seductive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Etymology
From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esductive
- sdeuctive
- sedcutive
- sedductive
- seducctive
- seducitve
- seductiev
- seductivve
- seducttive
- seductvie
- sedutcive
- seudctive
- sseductive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seductive - 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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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).