facultatives
\fa.kyl.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“facultatives” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,889
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de facultatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facultatives · facultatives · French
facultatives · rank #47,889 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,889
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fablab
Nearest frequency peer: fablab (-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 « facultatives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- extérioriser
extérioriser
52,114 corpus weight
- fablab
fablab
52,113 corpus weight
- facultatives
facultatives
52,112 corpus weight
- fas
fas
52,111 corpus weight
- faufile
faufile
52,109 corpus weight
- Fayçal
Fayçal
52,108 corpus weight
What this shows « facultatives » 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 | facultatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.kyl.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #47,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « facultatives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around facultatives (IPA \fa.kyl.ta.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,889 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de facultatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for facultatives, with forms such as "afcultatives", "faccultatives", and "faclutatives". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "facultative", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is facultatives, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de facultatif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afcultatives
- faccultatives
- faclutatives
- faculattives
- faculltatives
- facultaitves
- facultatievs
- facultativess
- facultativse
- facultativves
- facultattives
- facultatvies
- faculttaives
- faculttatives
- facutlatives
- faucltatives
- fcaultatives
- ffacultatives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of facultatives - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).