locatives
\lɔ.ka.tiv\
The verdict
“locatives” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,438
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de locatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-locatives · locatives · French
locatives · rank #42,438 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,438
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Livia
Nearest frequency peer: Livia (-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 « locatives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- literature
literature
57,566 corpus weight
- littorale
littorale
57,565 corpus weight
- Livia
Livia
57,564 corpus weight
- locatives
locatives
57,563 corpus weight
- locus
locus
57,562 corpus weight
- loins
loins
57,561 corpus weight
What this shows « locatives » 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 | locatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « locatives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around locatives (IPA \lɔ.ka.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,438 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de locatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for locatives, with forms such as "lcoatives", "llocatives", and "loactives". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "lucratives", "locative", "locatifs", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is locatives, spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de locatif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcoatives
- llocatives
- loactives
- locaitves
- locatievs
- locativess
- locativse
- locativves
- locattives
- locatvies
- loccatives
- loctaives
- olcatives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of locatives - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).