nutritive

\ny.tʁi.tiv\

/\ny.tʁi.tiv\/ adj

The verdict

“nutritive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,491
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de nutritif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nutritive · nutritive · French

nutritive · rank #42,491 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,491
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH Nunavut

Nearest frequency peer: Nunavut (-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 « nutritive »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « nutritive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

nutritive vs nutritives
90% similar
nutritive vs nutritif
78% similar
nutritive vs nutrition
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for nutritive
PropertyValue
Headwordnutritive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ny.tʁi.tiv\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,491
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nutritive »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).nutritivese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Nunavut » (#42,490), « nougat » (#42,489), « obligea » (#42,493). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nutritive » est au #42,491. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around nutritive (IPA \ny.tʁi.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,491 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de nutritif.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nutritive, with forms such as "nnutritive", "nturitive", and "nurtitive". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nutritives", "nutritif", "nutrition", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nutritive, spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de nutritif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nutritive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le principe féminin (θήλυ), quant à lui, sera incapable d’opérer la coction, d’épurer et de séminaliser le reste ou le résidu sanguin de l’aliment, il ne pourra par conséquent que maintenir la matière nutritive du sang, sous la forme de menstrues (καταμήνια), et se laisser informer par le mouvement générateur du principe masculin.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nnutritive
  • nturitive
  • nurtitive
  • nutirtive
  • nutriitve
  • nutritiev
  • nutritivve
  • nutrittive
  • nutritvie
  • nutrritive
  • nutrtiive
  • nuttritive
  • untritive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nutritive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

nnutritive1nturitive2nurtitive2nutirtive2nutriitve2nutritiev2nutritivve1nutrittive1
Edit distance from "nutritive"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nutritive"?
"nutritive" is spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ny.tʁi.tiv\.
What does "nutritive" mean?
As an adjective, "nutritive" means: Féminin singulier de nutritif.
What words are commonly confused with "nutritive"?
"nutritive" is commonly confused with "nutritives", "nutritif", "nutrition". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nutritive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nutritive" is \ny.tʁi.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nutritive" come from?
"nutritive" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nutritive", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list