créatif
\kʁe.a.tif\
The verdict
“créatif” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,558
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui montre de la créativité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creatif · créatif · French
créatif · rank #11,558 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,558
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crus
Nearest frequency peer: crus (-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 « créatif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coupures
coupures
88,446 corpus weight
- croisée
croisée
88,445 corpus weight
- crus
crus
88,444 corpus weight
- créatif
créatif
88,443 corpus weight
- cuisinier
cuisinier
88,442 corpus weight
- Dennis
Dennis
88,440 corpus weight
What this shows « créatif » 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 | créatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.a.tif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « créatif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around créatif (IPA \kʁe.a.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,558 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for créatif, with forms such as "ccréatif", "craétif", and "creatif". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "crétin", "Croatie", "creator", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is créatif, spelled C-R-É-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui montre de la créativité.
- 2Qui engendre de la création.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how créatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est certain que la vraie patience est le propre de personnalités fortes, que les difficultés n’arrêtent pas, et dont les objectifs ont un côté créatif et quelque peu obsessionnel.
Les fiches créatives de Marie-Claire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccréatif
- craétif
- creatif
- crréatif
- créaitf
- créatfi
- créatiff
- créattif
- crétaif
- cératif
- rcéatif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of créatif - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).