missive
\mi.siv\
The verdict
“missive” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,348
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courrier destiné à être envoyé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-missive · missive · French
missive · rank #33,348 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH misanthrope
Nearest frequency peer: misanthrope (-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 « missive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- masquée
masquée
66,656 corpus weight
- matelots
matelots
66,655 corpus weight
- misanthrope
misanthrope
66,654 corpus weight
- missive
missive
66,653 corpus weight
- mitraillette
mitraillette
66,652 corpus weight
- mods
mods
66,651 corpus weight
What this shows « missive » 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 | missive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.siv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « missive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around missive (IPA \mi.siv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,348 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Courrier destiné à être envoyé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for missive, with forms such as "imssive", "misisve", and "misive". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "messie", "mission", "massive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is missive, spelled M-I-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Courrier destiné à être envoyé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how missive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un steamer en partance emporta la missive du caïd Maclean à Tanger, d'où la légation d'Angleterre la transmit par le télégraphe à Gibraltar et au Foreign Office.
[…] il y aura toujours des gens pour penser que « ondée » est plus joli que « pluie », qui préféreront « opuscule » à « petit livre », « missive » à « lettre », « expliciter » à « expliquer », « pinacothèque » à « musée », « céphalalgie » à « mal de tête » et trouveront plus distingué d’avoir une protubérance qu’une bosse. » — (Robert Beauvais, L’hexagona…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssive
- misisve
- misive
- missiev
- missivve
- missvie
- mmissive
- msisive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of missive - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).