administratif

\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\

/\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\/ adj

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The verdict

“administratif” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,117
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
20
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’administration.

Corpus desk

Index FR-administratif · administratif · French

administratif · rank #4,117 · 20 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,117
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 20 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accidents

Nearest frequency peer: accidents (-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 « administratif »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « administratif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

administratif vs administration
86% similar
administratif vs administrative
86% similar
administratif vs administratifs
93% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for administratif
PropertyValue
Headwordadministratif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\
Letters13
Frequency rank#4,117
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « administratif »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.administratifse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accidents » (#4,116), « administrative » (#4,118), « étudié » (#4,115). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « administratif » est au #4,117. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around administratif (IPA \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,117 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’administration.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for administratif, with forms such as "addministratif", "adimnistratif", and "admiinstratif". 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, "administration", "administrative", "administratifs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is administratif, spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à l’administration.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how administratif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Auguste Comte avait fabriqué une caricature du catholicisme, dans laquelle il n’avait conservé que la défroque administrative, policière et hiérarchique de cette Église.
  2. Le Bureau de Santé était implacable et livrait sans merci aux autorités administratives et judiciaires ceux qui débarquaient clandestinement, avec la complicité des terriens, des marchandises suspectes.

This word in other languages

administrative(English)administrativo(Español)verwaltend(Deutsch)administrativo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addministratif
  • adimnistratif
  • admiinstratif
  • adminisrtatif
  • adminisstratif
  • administartif
  • administraitf
  • administratfi
  • administratiff
  • administrattif
  • administrratif
  • administrtaif
  • administtratif
  • adminitsratif
  • adminnistratif
  • adminsitratif
  • admministratif
  • admniistratif
  • amdinistratif
  • daministratif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of administratif - 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.

addministratif1adimnistratif2admiinstratif2adminisrtatif2adminisstratif1administartif2administraitf2administratfi2
Edit distance from "administratif"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "administratif"?
"administratif" is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\.
What does "administratif" mean?
As an adjective, "administratif" means: Relatif à l’administration.
What words are commonly confused with "administratif"?
"administratif" is commonly confused with "administration", "administrative", "administratifs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "administratif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "administratif" is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "administratif" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "administratif", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

personnalités#4,010littéralement#4,248rassemblement#4,274installations#3,927

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

conformément20 variantsexclusivement20 variantséventuellement20 variantsfélicitations20 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list