abusive
\a.by.ziv\
The verdict
“abusive” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,725
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de abusif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abusive · abusive · French
abusive · rank #19,725 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,725
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abordables
Nearest frequency peer: abordables (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « abusive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épines
épines
80,279 corpus weight
- étangs
étangs
80,278 corpus weight
- abordables
abordables
80,277 corpus weight
- abusive
abusive
80,276 corpus weight
- accessoirem…
accessoirement
80,275 corpus weight
- acidité
acidité
80,274 corpus weight
What this shows « abusive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | abusive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.by.ziv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abusive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around abusive (IPA \a.by.ziv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,725 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de abusif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for abusive, with forms such as "abbusive", "absuive", and "abuisve". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "abusives", "abuse", "abusif", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is abusive, spelled A-B-U-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de abusif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abusive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les laïcistes ou les religiophobes, refusent la notion même de « laïcité ouverte ou positive », alors qu’il existe des formes de laïcité radicales ou rigides qui limitent le libre exercice de la religion, notamment dans son expression publique et collective, au nom d’une interprétation restrictive et abusive de la neutralité de l’État et de la séparation…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbusive
- absuive
- abuisve
- abusiev
- abusivve
- abussive
- abusvie
- aubsive
- bausive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abusive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).