laxatif
\lak.sa.tif\
The verdict
“laxatif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,006
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accélérant le transit intestinal, qui ramollit les selles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laxatif · laxatif · French
laxatif · rank #48,006 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,006
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lavrov
Nearest frequency peer: Lavrov (-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 « laxatif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Larissa
Larissa
51,998 corpus weight
- laurentienne
laurentienne
51,997 corpus weight
- Lavrov
Lavrov
51,996 corpus weight
- laxatif
laxatif
51,995 corpus weight
- Lessing
Lessing
51,993 corpus weight
- levais
levais
51,992 corpus weight
What this shows « laxatif » 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 | laxatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lak.sa.tif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laxatif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around laxatif (IPA \lak.sa.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,006 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for laxatif, with forms such as "alxatif", "laaxtif", and "laxaitf". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "locatif", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is laxatif, spelled L-A-X-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Accélérant le transit intestinal, qui ramollit les selles.
- 2Qui provoque l'effusion, l'épanchement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laxatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces purgatifs étaient des tisanes laxatives faites avec le séné et le cristal minéral, ordonnées par verrées, les décoctions des tamarins ou les infusions des vulnéraires dans lesquelles on dissolvait la manne et le sel prunelle, les diluta cassiae, les sirops de chicorée avec la rhubarbe, auxquels succédaient encore les cordiaux et doux alexitères, par l…
On y apprend que le fenouil est laxatif, que les feuilles de lys sont un antidote aux morsures de serpent ou qu’une décoction d’absinthe (une plante dont la racine est déjà recommandée en pessaire par Hippocrate) soulage les migraineux quand elle est appliquée sur la chevelure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alxatif
- laaxtif
- laxaitf
- laxatfi
- laxatiff
- laxattif
- laxtaif
- laxxatif
- llaxatif
- lxaatif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laxatif - 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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