descriptive
\dɛs.kʁip.tiv\
The verdict
“descriptive” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,830
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de descriptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descriptive · descriptive · French
descriptive · rank #23,830 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,830
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH derrick
Nearest frequency peer: derrick (-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 « descriptive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dal
dal
76,175 corpus weight
- demeurait
demeurait
76,174 corpus weight
- derrick
derrick
76,172 corpus weight
- descriptive
descriptive
76,171 corpus weight
- devenaient
devenaient
76,169 corpus weight
- dirigeantes
dirigeantes
76,168 corpus weight
What this shows « descriptive » 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 | descriptive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.kʁip.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descriptive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around descriptive (IPA \dɛs.kʁip.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,830 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de descriptif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for descriptive, with forms such as "ddescriptive", "decsriptive", and "desccriptive". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "descriptif", "description", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is descriptive, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de descriptif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descriptive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voir des redondances dans les spécifiques de ces toponymes revient à les « désanthroponymiser » pour leur affecter une fonction descriptive qu’ils n’ont pas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescriptive
- decsriptive
- desccriptive
- descirptive
- descripitve
- descripptive
- descriptiev
- descriptivve
- descripttive
- descriptvie
- descritpive
- descrpitive
- descrriptive
- desrciptive
- desscriptive
- dsecriptive
- edscriptive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descriptive - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descriptive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (17 here; floor ≥5).