lucrative
\ly.kʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“lucrative” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,868. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,868
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de lucratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucrative · lucrative · French
lucrative · rank #27,868 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,868
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lingots
Nearest frequency peer: lingots (-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 « lucrative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lest
lest
72,136 corpus weight
- Liliane
Liliane
72,135 corpus weight
- lingots
lingots
72,134 corpus weight
- lucrative
lucrative
72,133 corpus weight
- Lydie
Lydie
72,132 corpus weight
- législateurs
législateurs
72,131 corpus weight
What this shows « lucrative » 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 | lucrative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly.kʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lucrative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around lucrative (IPA \ly.kʁa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,868 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de lucratif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for lucrative, with forms such as "lcurative", "llucrative", and "lucartive". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lucratives", "lucratif", "locative", 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 lucrative, spelled L-U-C-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de lucratif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lucrative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jusqu’à ce qu’il restât seul, Simon dut être élevé comme un homme à qui l’exercice d’une profession lucrative était nécessaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcurative
- llucrative
- lucartive
- luccrative
- lucraitve
- lucratiev
- lucrativve
- lucrattive
- lucratvie
- lucrrative
- lucrtaive
- lurcative
- ulcrative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lucrative - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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