facultatif

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/\fa.kyl.ta.tif\/ adj

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The verdict

“facultatif” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,312
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui laisse la faculté de faire ou de ne pas faire une chose ; dont on peut, à son gré, faire ou ne pas faire usage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-facultatif · facultatif · French

facultatif · rank #25,312 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #25,312
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fabian

Nearest frequency peer: Fabian (-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 « facultatif »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « facultatif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

facultatif vs facultative
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for facultatif
PropertyValue
Headwordfacultatif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fa.kyl.ta.tif\
Letters10
Frequency rank#25,312
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « facultatif »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).facultatifse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Fabian » (#25,311), « exigeants » (#25,310), « faubourgs » (#25,314). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « facultatif » est au #25,312. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around facultatif (IPA \fa.kyl.ta.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,312 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui laisse la faculté de faire ou de ne pas faire une chose ; dont on peut, à son gré, faire ou ne pas faire usage.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for facultatif, with forms such as "afcultatif", "faccultatif", and "faclutatif". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "facultative", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 facultatif, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-A-T-I-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui laisse la faculté de faire ou de ne pas faire une chose ; dont on peut, à son gré, faire ou ne pas faire usage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how facultatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D'autres champignons, les nécrotrophes, sont des saprophytes facultatifs. Ils peuvent se développer en tant que parasite sur les hôtes, puis continuer à vivre, croître et se multiplier sur les tissus morts de l'hôte après sa mort.
  2. Cette disposition de la loi n’est que facultative.

Synonyms

optionnel

This word in other languages

optional(English)opcional(Español)freiwillig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afcultatif
  • faccultatif
  • faclutatif
  • faculattif
  • faculltatif
  • facultaitf
  • facultatfi
  • facultatiff
  • facultattif
  • faculttaif
  • faculttatif
  • facutlatif
  • faucltatif
  • fcaultatif
  • ffacultatif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of facultatif - 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.

afcultatif2faccultatif1faclutatif2faculattif2faculltatif1facultaitf2facultatfi2facultatiff1
Edit distance from "facultatif"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "facultatif"?
"facultatif" is spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-A-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.kyl.ta.tif\.
What does "facultatif" mean?
As an adjective, "facultatif" means: Qui laisse la faculté de faire ou de ne pas faire une chose ; dont on peut, à son gré, faire ou ne pas faire usage.
What words are commonly confused with "facultatif"?
"facultatif" is commonly confused with "facultative". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "facultatif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "facultatif" is \fa.kyl.ta.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "facultatif" come from?
"facultatif" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "facultatif", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

figuration#25,315endommager#25,304frottement#25,326décidèrent#25,290

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

hérétiques15 variantsinactivité15 variantsconservera15 variantslubrifiant15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list