attractif
\a.tʁak.tif\
The verdict
“attractif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,449
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la propriété d’attirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attractif · attractif · French
attractif · rank #19,449 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,449
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atlantiques
Nearest frequency peer: atlantiques (-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 « attractif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- asso
asso
80,555 corpus weight
- astronomique
astronomique
80,554 corpus weight
- atlantiques
atlantiques
80,553 corpus weight
- attractif
attractif
80,552 corpus weight
- avérée
avérée
80,551 corpus weight
- bailleurs
bailleurs
80,550 corpus weight
What this shows « attractif » 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 | attractif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.tʁak.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attractif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around attractif (IPA \a.tʁak.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,449 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for attractif, with forms such as "atractif", "atrtactif", and "attarctif". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "attraction", "attractive", "attractifs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is attractif, spelled A-T-T-R-A-C-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a la propriété d’attirer.
- 2Attirant ; séduisant ; attrayant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attractif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Boussuge et Faucherel eux-mêmes avaient subi encore une fois la force attractive de cet aimant.
Un leurre avec billes est souvent attractif, mais il arrive aussi que le même modèle, silencieux cette fois, devienne alors plus prenant.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atractif
- atrtactif
- attarctif
- attracctif
- attracitf
- attractfi
- attractiff
- attracttif
- attratcif
- attrcatif
- attrractif
- tatractif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attractif - 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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Same letter count
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