fictives
\fik.tiv\
The verdict
“fictives” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,295
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fictif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fictives · fictives · French
fictives · rank #38,295 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festivaliers
Nearest frequency peer: festivaliers (-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 « fictives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ferrero
Ferrero
61,708 corpus weight
- festivaliers
festivaliers
61,707 corpus weight
- fictives
fictives
61,706 corpus weight
- fides
fides
61,705 corpus weight
- filment
filment
61,704 corpus weight
- finirent
finirent
61,703 corpus weight
What this shows « fictives » 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 | fictives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fik.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fictives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fictives (IPA \fik.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,295 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fictif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fictives, with forms such as "fcitives", "ffictives", and "ficctives". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fictifs", "fictive", "fictions", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fictives, spelled F-I-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fictif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fictives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la certitude un peu provocante des années 1980 que tout communique et se communique, parler d’une pandémie, c’est re-susciter le soupçon et motiver ainsi le passage d’identités fictives et repérables aux enjeux de la voix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcitives
- ffictives
- ficctives
- ficitves
- fictievs
- fictivess
- fictivse
- fictivves
- ficttives
- fictvies
- fitcives
- ifctives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fictives - 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).