décorative
\de.kɔ.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“décorative” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,811
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de décoratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decorative · décorative · French
décorative · rank #36,811 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,811
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débiter
Nearest frequency peer: débiter (-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 « décorative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dunham
Dunham
63,192 corpus weight
- débiter
débiter
63,191 corpus weight
- décorative
décorative
63,190 corpus weight
- décrochent
décrochent
63,189 corpus weight
- défendaient
défendaient
63,188 corpus weight
- défendeur
défendeur
63,187 corpus weight
What this shows « décorative » 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 | décorative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.kɔ.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décorative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around décorative (IPA \de.kɔ.ʁa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,811 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de décoratif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for décorative, with forms such as "dcéorative", "ddécorative", and "decorative". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "décoratives", "décoratrice", "décoratif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is décorative, spelled D-É-C-O-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de décoratif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéorative
- ddécorative
- decorative
- déccorative
- décoartive
- décoraitve
- décoratiev
- décorativve
- décorattive
- décoratvie
- décorrative
- décortaive
- décroative
- déocrative
- édcorative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décorative - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).