explicatifs
\ɛks.pli.ka.tif\
The verdict
“explicatifs” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,602
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de explicatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-explicatifs · explicatifs · French
explicatifs · rank #45,602 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,602
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exilée
Nearest frequency peer: exilée (-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 « explicatifs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- excommunié
excommunié
54,402 corpus weight
- Exeter
Exeter
54,401 corpus weight
- exilée
exilée
54,400 corpus weight
- explicatifs
explicatifs
54,399 corpus weight
- explorée
explorée
54,398 corpus weight
- expérimenté…
expérimentées
54,397 corpus weight
What this shows « explicatifs » 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 | explicatifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pli.ka.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #45,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « explicatifs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around explicatifs (IPA \ɛks.pli.ka.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,602 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de explicatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for explicatifs, with forms such as "epxlicatifs", "exlpicatifs", and "expilcatifs". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "explication", "explicative", "explications", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is explicatifs, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de explicatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how explicatifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant un public malheureusement clairsemé, l’artiste a offert un beau moment de harpe celtique et de chants, entrecoupés de commentaires explicatifs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxlicatifs
- exlpicatifs
- expilcatifs
- explciatifs
- expliactifs
- explicaitfs
- explicatfis
- explicatiffs
- explicatifss
- explicatisf
- explicattifs
- expliccatifs
- explictaifs
- expllicatifs
- expplicatifs
- exxplicatifs
- xeplicatifs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of explicatifs - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).