inactive
\i.nak.tiv\
The verdict
“inactive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,496
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de inactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inactive · inactive · French
inactive · rank #43,496 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,496
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impénétrables
Nearest frequency peer: impénétrables (-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 « inactive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- implémenter
implémenter
56,508 corpus weight
- impute
impute
56,507 corpus weight
- impénétrabl…
impénétrables
56,506 corpus weight
- inactive
inactive
56,505 corpus weight
- incendiées
incendiées
56,504 corpus weight
- indexé
indexé
56,503 corpus weight
What this shows « inactive » 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 | inactive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inactive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around inactive (IPA \i.nak.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,496 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de inactif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for inactive, with forms such as "ianctive", "inacctive", and "inacitve". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "inactivité", "inactif", "inaction", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is inactive, spelled I-N-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de inactif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inactive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dosages par récepteur mesurent leur liaison à celui-ci, mais comme nous l’avons vu la LH déglycosylée se lie mais reste inactive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ianctive
- inacctive
- inacitve
- inactiev
- inactivve
- inacttive
- inactvie
- inatcive
- incative
- innactive
- niactive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inactive - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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