furtive
\fyʁ.tiv\
The verdict
“furtive” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,544
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de furtif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furtive · furtive · French
furtive · rank #48,544 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,544
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freezer
Nearest frequency peer: freezer (-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 « furtive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frangins
frangins
51,460 corpus weight
- Frankfurt
Frankfurt
51,459 corpus weight
- freezer
freezer
51,458 corpus weight
- furtive
furtive
51,457 corpus weight
- fébriles
fébriles
51,456 corpus weight
- félicitons
félicitons
51,455 corpus weight
What this shows « furtive » 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 | furtive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fyʁ.tiv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « furtive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around furtive (IPA \fyʁ.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,544 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de furtif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for furtive, with forms such as "ffurtive", "frutive", and "furitve". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "futile", "fustige", "furie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is furtive, spelled F-U-R-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de furtif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how furtive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous le mélancolique effacement du brouillard, toute la vie se dérobait et dans la voie déserte bordée d’arbres, j’ai entendu sur le sol, furtive et légère, une feuille morte qui me suivait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffurtive
- frutive
- furitve
- furrtive
- furtiev
- furtivve
- furttive
- furtvie
- futrive
- ufrtive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of furtive - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).