attentif
\a.tɑ̃.tif\
The verdict
“attentif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,785
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de l’attention, de la concentration sur quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attentif · attentif · French
attentif · rank #9,785 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,785
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atomique
Nearest frequency peer: atomique (-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 « attentif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assemblage
assemblage
90,219 corpus weight
- atlas
atlas
90,218 corpus weight
- atomique
atomique
90,217 corpus weight
- attentif
attentif
90,216 corpus weight
- attribuée
attribuée
90,215 corpus weight
- audace
audace
90,214 corpus weight
What this shows « attentif » 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 | attentif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attentif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around attentif (IPA \a.tɑ̃.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,785 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attentif, with forms such as "atentif", "atetntif", and "attenitf". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "attention", "attentive", "attentifs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 attentif, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a de l’attention, de la concentration sur quelque chose.
- 2Qualifie un personnage rempli d’attention, de politesse et de soin pour les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attentif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aristote n'a connu que le bras hectocotylisé des octopus, comme on peut s'en convaincre facilement par la lecture attentive des passages en question, mais il l'a connu fort exactement.
En algèbre, sentant mon interlocuteur plus calé que je ne le suis, je reprends mon rôle de disciple attentif.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atentif
- atetntif
- attenitf
- attenntif
- attentfi
- attentiff
- attenttif
- attetnif
- attnetif
- tatentif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attentif - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).