attentive
\a.tɑ̃.tiv\
The verdict
“attentive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,075
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de attentif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attentive · attentive · French
attentive · rank #17,075 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,075
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attendra
Nearest frequency peer: attendra (-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 « attentive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ardoise
ardoise
82,929 corpus weight
- Artois
Artois
82,928 corpus weight
- attendra
attendra
82,927 corpus weight
- attentive
attentive
82,926 corpus weight
- attributions
attributions
82,925 corpus weight
- avertisseme…
avertissements
82,924 corpus weight
What this shows « attentive » 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 | attentive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attentive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around attentive (IPA \a.tɑ̃.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,075 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de attentif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for attentive, with forms such as "atentive", "atetntive", and "attenitve". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "attente", "attentif", "attention", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 attentive, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de attentif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attentive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans les avoir connus, l’écrivain Christian Bobin a vanté la « gaieté grave » de la première et « l’insouciance attentive » du second.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atentive
- atetntive
- attenitve
- attenntive
- attentiev
- attentivve
- attenttive
- attentvie
- attetnive
- attnetive
- tatentive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attentive - 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 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).