négatives
\ne.ɡa.tiv\
The verdict
“négatives” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,707
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de négatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negatives · négatives · French
négatives · rank #9,707 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,707
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nîmes
Nearest frequency peer: Nîmes (+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 « négatives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mêlée
mêlée
90,298 corpus weight
- nage
nage
90,297 corpus weight
- négatives
négatives
90,294 corpus weight
- Nîmes
Nîmes
90,293 corpus weight
- nôtres
nôtres
90,292 corpus weight
- observateurs
observateurs
90,291 corpus weight
What this shows « négatives » 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 | négatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ne.ɡa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « négatives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around négatives (IPA \ne.ɡa.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,707 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de négatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for négatives, with forms such as "negatives", "ngéatives", and "nnégatives". 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, "natives", "négative", "négatifs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is négatives, spelled N-É-G-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de négatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how négatives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenons, par exemple, des proclamations pour lesquelles le second facteur prend des valeurs très fortement négatives, celles de Ferroul (704) à gauche ou de Guilloutet (213) à droite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- negatives
- ngéatives
- nnégatives
- néagtives
- négaitves
- négatievs
- négativess
- négativse
- négativves
- négattives
- négatvies
- néggatives
- négtaives
- éngatives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of négatives - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).