narrative
\na.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“narrative” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,608
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de narratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narrative · narrative · French
narrative · rank #19,608 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,608
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH métrique
Nearest frequency peer: métrique (-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 « narrative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mourra
mourra
80,396 corpus weight
- mériterait
mériterait
80,395 corpus weight
- métrique
métrique
80,394 corpus weight
- narrative
narrative
80,393 corpus weight
- natures
natures
80,392 corpus weight
- neveux
neveux
80,391 corpus weight
What this shows « narrative » 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 | narrative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « narrative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around narrative (IPA \na.ʁa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,608 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de narratif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for narrative, with forms such as "anrrative", "narartive", and "narative". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "normative", "narratrice", "narratives", 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is narrative, spelled N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de narratif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how narrative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sémiotique narrative, note justement Ricœur, vise à déchronologiser et à relogifier le récit (II, 52).
Ce processus permet à la personne de se saisir de son vécu en lui attribuant une signification, pour soi et pour les autres, communicable sous forme narrative.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anrrative
- narartive
- narative
- narraitve
- narratiev
- narrativve
- narrattive
- narratvie
- narrtaive
- nnarrative
- nrarative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of narrative - 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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).