collaboratif
\kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tif\
The verdict
“collaboratif” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #24,909 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #24,909
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui associe de nombreuses personnes ou entités en vue de réaliser des actions diverses dont la finalité est décidée en commun.
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 | collaboratif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tif\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #24,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “collaboratif” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for collaboratif is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,909 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui associe de nombreuses personnes ou entités en vue de réaliser des actions diverses dont la finalité est décidée en commun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for collaboratif, with forms such as "ccollaboratif", "clolaboratif", and "colaboratif". 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, "collaboration", "collaborative", "collaboratifs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is collaboratif, spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui associe de nombreuses personnes ou entités en vue de réaliser des actions diverses dont la finalité est décidée en commun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccollaboratif,clolaboratif,colaboratif,colalboratif,collabboratif,collaboartif,collaboraitf,collaboratfi,collaboratiff,collaborattif,collaborratif,collabortaif,collabroatif,collaobratif,collbaoratif,ocllaboratif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collaboratif - 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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Using “collaboratif”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tif\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “collaboration” - see the side-by-side comparison. collaboratif vs collaboration
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.