festives
\fɛs.tiv\
The verdict
“festives” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,895
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de festif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festives · festives · French
festives · rank #47,895 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,895
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Feb
Nearest frequency peer: Feb (-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 « festives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faufile
faufile
52,109 corpus weight
- Fayçal
Fayçal
52,108 corpus weight
- Feb
Feb
52,107 corpus weight
- festives
festives
52,106 corpus weight
- FFS
FFS
52,105 corpus weight
- fibrose
fibrose
52,104 corpus weight
What this shows « festives » 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 | festives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛs.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « festives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around festives (IPA \fɛs.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,895 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de festif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for festives, with forms such as "efstives", "fesitves", and "fesstives". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fictives", "festivités", "festive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 festives, spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de festif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how festives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Willy Ronis (1910-2009) aimait photographier la foule, les moments de rassemblement populaire autour d’une cause comme les ambiances festives dans les guinguettes des bords de Marne ou les attractions foraines.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstives
- fesitves
- fesstives
- festievs
- festivess
- festivse
- festivves
- festtives
- festvies
- fetsives
- ffestives
- fsetives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festives - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).