constructive
\kɔ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\
The verdict
“constructive” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,968
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de constructif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constructive · constructive · French
constructive · rank #18,968 · 19 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,968
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH connexes
Nearest frequency peer: connexes (-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 « constructive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- composite
composite
81,036 corpus weight
- connexes
connexes
81,034 corpus weight
- constructive
constructive
81,033 corpus weight
- convalescen…
convalescence
81,032 corpus weight
- coordinateur
coordinateur
81,031 corpus weight
- costard
costard
81,030 corpus weight
What this shows « constructive » 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 | constructive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « constructive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around constructive (IPA \kɔ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,968 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de constructif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for constructive, with forms such as "cconstructive", "cnostructive", and "connstructive". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "constructives", "constructif", "construction", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is constructive, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de constructif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how constructive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et tout reste à faire, — à penser — pour re-demander inlassablement, et sans arrière-pensée militante, « que faire ? », pour suspendre durablement toute réponse naïvement constructive, et pour faire ce qu’il faut : ici, tout de suite, moi-même qui, dénué de l’épaisseur d’une subjectivité transcendantale ou législatrice, ne suis que d’être requis par l’urg…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstructive
- cnostructive
- connstructive
- consrtuctive
- consstructive
- constrcutive
- constrructive
- construcctive
- construcitve
- constructiev
- constructivve
- constructtive
- constructvie
- construtcive
- consttructive
- consturctive
- contsructive
- cosntructive
- ocnstructive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constructive - 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 (19 here; floor ≥5).