narratif
\na.ʁa.tif\
The verdict
“narratif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,702
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la narration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narratif · narratif · French
narratif · rank #21,702 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nageurs
Nearest frequency peer: nageurs (-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 « narratif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- move
move
78,302 corpus weight
- mâchoires
mâchoires
78,301 corpus weight
- nageurs
nageurs
78,300 corpus weight
- narratif
narratif
78,299 corpus weight
- navettes
navettes
78,298 corpus weight
- Nest
Nest
78,297 corpus weight
What this shows « narratif » 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 | narratif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.ʁa.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « narratif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around narratif (IPA \na.ʁa.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,702 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for narratif, with forms such as "anrratif", "narartif", and "naratif". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "normatif", "narration", "narrative", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is narratif, spelled N-A-R-R-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la narration.
- 2Qui fait connaître, qui expose en détail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how narratif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut bien, certes, quelques films de SF traditionnelle, […], mais il y eut surtout un certain nombre de films qui surent tirer la leçon d'un cinéma non narratif et non spectaculaire pour l'adapter toutefois, non prostitutionnellement et là est le miracle, aux nécessités du cinéma pour public conditionné (… par 75 ans de cinéma narratif).
L'analyse plus approfondie de la notion de distance esthétique permet de revenir sur le rôle primordial du suspense et de l'angoisse dans le processus narratif d'un récit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anrratif
- narartif
- naratif
- narraitf
- narratfi
- narratiff
- narrattif
- narrtaif
- nnarratif
- nraratif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of narratif - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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