collective

\kɔ.lɛk.tiv\

/\kɔ.lɛk.tiv\/ noun

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The verdict

“collective” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,742
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de collectif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-collective · collective · French

collective · rank #3,742 · 13 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,742
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH choisis

Nearest frequency peer: choisis (-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 « collective »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « collective » 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).

collective vs collectives
91% similar
collective vs collectivité
75% similar
collective vs collecte
80% similar

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

Key facts for collective
PropertyValue
Headwordcollective
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɛk.tiv\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,742
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collective »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).collectivese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « choisis » (#3,741), « collègue » (#3,743), « cherchent » (#3,740). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collective » est au #3,742. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around collective (IPA \kɔ.lɛk.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,742 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de collectif.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for collective, with forms such as "ccollective", "clolective", and "colective". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "collectives", "collectivité", "collecte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is collective, spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de collectif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les tâches qui sont traditionnellement attribuées par poste (le président, le secrétaire, etc.) sont entièrement partagées dans la collective.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccollective
  • clolective
  • colective
  • colelctive
  • collcetive
  • collecctive
  • collecitve
  • collectiev
  • collectivve
  • collecttive
  • collectvie
  • colletcive
  • ocllective

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccollective1clolective2colective1colelctive2collcetive2collecctive1collecitve2collectiev2
Edit distance from "collective"

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 "collective"?
"collective" is spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɛk.tiv\.
What does "collective" mean?
As a noun, "collective" means: Variante de collectif.
What words are commonly confused with "collective"?
"collective" is commonly confused with "collectives", "collectivité", "collecte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "collective"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collective" is \kɔ.lɛk.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collective" come from?
"collective" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list