collectives
\kɔ.lɛk.tiv\
The verdict
“collectives” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,450
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de collectif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collectives · collectives · French
collectives · rank #9,450 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,450
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coll
Nearest frequency peer: coll (-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 « collectives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- citoyenne
citoyenne
90,554 corpus weight
- citée
citée
90,553 corpus weight
- coll
coll
90,552 corpus weight
- collectives
collectives
90,551 corpus weight
- commente
commente
90,550 corpus weight
- composant
composant
90,549 corpus weight
What this shows « collectives » 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 | collectives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collectives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around collectives (IPA \kɔ.lɛk.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,450 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de collectif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for collectives, with forms such as "ccollectives", "clolectives", and "colectives". 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, "collectivités", "collectés", "collective", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is collectives, spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de collectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how collectives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès les premiers jours, Maeva Squiban et Natalie Griczer ont été prises dans des chutes collectives sans en être responsables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollectives
- clolectives
- colectives
- colelctives
- collcetives
- collecctives
- collecitves
- collectievs
- collectivess
- collectivse
- collectivves
- collecttives
- collectvies
- colletcives
- ocllectives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collectives - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).