offensif
\ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“offensif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,438
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’attaque, par opposition à la défense.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensif · offensif · French
offensif · rank #13,438 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH observés
Nearest frequency peer: observés (-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 « offensif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nerveuse
nerveuse
86,566 corpus weight
- Nil
Nil
86,565 corpus weight
- observés
observés
86,564 corpus weight
- offensif
offensif
86,563 corpus weight
- oignon
oignon
86,562 corpus weight
- pallier
pallier
86,561 corpus weight
What this shows « offensif » 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 | offensif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « offensif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around offensif (IPA \ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,438 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne l’attaque, par opposition à la défense.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for offensif, with forms such as "fofensif", "ofefnsif", and "ofensif". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "offensive", "offensifs", "offense", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is offensif, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’attaque, par opposition à la défense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offensif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le représentant italien se borna à répondre que la Russie n’avait pas encore commencé l’exécution d’un plan offensif contre la Bulgarie.
En trois jours, en trois arrivées totalement différentes, le patron du Tour a marqué les esprits : adroit et offensif sur les pavés, surpuissant dans un sprint en côte, ultra-déterminé et impitoyable après les 7 km d’ascension de la Planche.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofensif
- ofefnsif
- ofensif
- offenisf
- offennsif
- offensfi
- offensiff
- offenssif
- offesnif
- offnesif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offensif - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).