comparatives
\kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“comparatives” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,238
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de comparatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparatives · comparatives · French
comparatives · rank #47,238 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,238
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communautaris…
Nearest frequency peer: communautariste (-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 « comparatives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- combattons
combattons
52,766 corpus weight
- commencerons
commencerons
52,765 corpus weight
- communautar…
communautariste
52,764 corpus weight
- comparatives
comparatives
52,763 corpus weight
- complotiste
complotiste
52,762 corpus weight
- compos
compos
52,761 corpus weight
What this shows « comparatives » 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 | comparatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #47,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comparatives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around comparatives (IPA \kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,238 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de comparatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for comparatives, with forms such as "ccomparatives", "cmoparatives", and "comapratives". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "coopératives", "comparative", "comparatifs", 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 comparatives, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de comparatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comparatives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’on peut se représenter la grandeur, et à la rigueur la rougeur, comme des propriétés scalaires, susceptibles de degrés, on ne voit pas en revanche comment scalariser la bonté, le courage, ou la justice (ce qui n’empêche pas que ces mots peuvent entrer dans des constructions comparatives, comme « Pierre est plus juste que Paul »).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomparatives
- cmoparatives
- comapratives
- commparatives
- compaartives
- comparaitves
- comparatievs
- comparativess
- comparativse
- comparativves
- comparattives
- comparatvies
- comparratives
- compartaives
- compparatives
- compraatives
- copmaratives
- ocmparatives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comparatives - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).