administratives

\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\

/\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\/ adj

The verdict

“administratives” has 23 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,944
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
23
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de administratif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-administratives · administratives · French

administratives · rank #5,944 · 23 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,944
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 23 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accomplir

Nearest frequency peer: accomplir (-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 « administratives »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « administratives » 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).

administratives vs administrative
93% similar
administratives vs administratifs
87% similar
administratives vs administrations
87% similar

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

Key facts for administratives
PropertyValue
Headwordadministratives
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\
Letters15
Frequency rank#5,944
Misspellings tracked23
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « administratives »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accomplir » (#5,943), « Am » (#5,945), « accompagnée » (#5,942). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « administratives » est au #5,944. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 23 spelling variants around administratives (IPA \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,944 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de administratif.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for administratives, with forms such as "addministratives", "adimnistratives", and "admiinstratives". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "administrative", "administratifs", "administrations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is administratives, spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de administratif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les structures administratives, politiques et juridiques texanes, tout en ne suscitant pas toujours parmi les citoyens l’intérêt escompté, traduisent cependant une véritable cohésion dans le tissu social et contribuent à “texaniser” les gens du comté Médina.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addministratives
  • adimnistratives
  • admiinstratives
  • adminisrtatives
  • adminisstratives
  • administartives
  • administraitves
  • administratievs
  • administrativess
  • administrativse
  • administrativves
  • administrattives
  • administratvies
  • administrratives
  • administrtaives
  • administtratives
  • adminitsratives
  • adminnistratives
  • adminsitratives
  • admministratives
  • admniistratives
  • amdinistratives
  • daministratives

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

addministratives1adimnistratives2admiinstratives2adminisrtatives2adminisstratives1administartives2administraitves2administratievs2
Edit distance from "administratives"

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 "administratives"?
"administratives" is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\.
What does "administratives" mean?
As an adjective, "administratives" means: Féminin pluriel de administratif.
What words are commonly confused with "administratives"?
"administratives" is commonly confused with "administrative", "administratifs", "administrations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "administratives"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "administratives" is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "administratives" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list