directives
\di.ʁɛk.tiv\
The verdict
“directives” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,486
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de directive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-directives · directives · French
directives · rank #10,486 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,486
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devine
Nearest frequency peer: devine (-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 « directives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- demeurer
demeurer
89,518 corpus weight
- descendu
descendu
89,517 corpus weight
- devine
devine
89,516 corpus weight
- directives
directives
89,515 corpus weight
- disciples
disciples
89,514 corpus weight
- distinctes
distinctes
89,513 corpus weight
What this shows « directives » 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 | directives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « directives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around directives (IPA \di.ʁɛk.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,486 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for directives, with forms such as "ddirectives", "dierctives", and "dircetives". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "directrices", "directes", "directive", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is directives, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de directive.
- 2Indications générales données par l’autorité militaire, politique, religieuse, etc., ou par un courant d’opinion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how directives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce prélat dont les options politiques étaient connues depuis longtemps et qui, à la suite de Léon XIII, souhaitait la formation en France d’un parti républicain modéré groupant tous les « honnêtes gens », catholiques ou non, fut accueilli avec une réserve polie par la coterie légitimiste, très influente dans le diocèse, qui le soupçonnait non sans raison…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirectives
- dierctives
- dircetives
- direcctives
- direcitves
- directievs
- directivess
- directivse
- directivves
- directtives
- directvies
- diretcives
- dirrectives
- driectives
- idrectives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of directives - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).