lessives
\le.siv\
The verdict
“lessives” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,424
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lessives · lessives · French
lessives · rank #47,424 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lech
Nearest frequency peer: Lech (-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 « lessives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lancet
lancet
52,581 corpus weight
- languette
languette
52,580 corpus weight
- Lanvin
Lanvin
52,579 corpus weight
- Lech
Lech
52,578 corpus weight
- lessives
lessives
52,577 corpus weight
- libro
libro
52,575 corpus weight
What this shows « lessives » 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 | lessives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.siv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lessives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lessives (IPA \le.siv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,424 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de lessive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lessives, with forms such as "elssives", "lesisves", and "lesives". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lessive", "lesdites", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lessives, spelled L-E-S-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lessive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elssives
- lesisves
- lesives
- lessievs
- lessivess
- lessivse
- lessivves
- lessvies
- llessives
- lsesives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lessives - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).