festif
\fɛs.tif\
The verdict
“festif” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,858
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la fête, qui a un caractère de fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festif · festif · French
festif · rank #22,858 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,858
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrer
Nearest frequency peer: ferrer (-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 « festif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fautif
fautif
77,146 corpus weight
- feinte
feinte
77,145 corpus weight
- ferrer
ferrer
77,144 corpus weight
- festif
festif
77,143 corpus weight
- feuillet
feuillet
77,142 corpus weight
- filtrage
filtrage
77,141 corpus weight
What this shows « festif » 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 | festif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛs.tif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « festif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around festif (IPA \fɛs.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,858 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la fête, qui a un caractère de fête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for festif, with forms such as "efstif", "fesitf", and "fesstif". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fictif", "festin", "furtif", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is festif, spelled F-E-S-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la fête, qui a un caractère de fête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour en revenir à nos moutons, je tenais à réunir tout le monde autour d'un événement festif fédérateur dans la semaine qui suivait tout au plus, et s'il nous est arrivé de fêter mes mensiversaires, nous étions loin de la date.
L’ambiance est festive, loin du côté guindé du marché de l'art parisien où les mauvaises langues sont légion. Ici tout le monde est friendly même si les coups bas pleuvent ensuite dans le dos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstif
- fesitf
- fesstif
- festfi
- festiff
- festtif
- fetsif
- ffestif
- fsetif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festif - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).