offensifs
\ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“offensifs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,460
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de offensif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensifs · offensifs · French
offensifs · rank #38,460 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,460
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offensant
Nearest frequency peer: offensant (-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 « offensifs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- octroyée
octroyée
61,544 corpus weight
- oda
oda
61,543 corpus weight
- offensant
offensant
61,542 corpus weight
- offensifs
offensifs
61,541 corpus weight
- olympiades
olympiades
61,540 corpus weight
- Oléron
Oléron
61,539 corpus weight
What this shows « offensifs » 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 | offensifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « offensifs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around offensifs (IPA \ɔ.fɑ̃.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,460 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de offensif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for offensifs, with forms such as "fofensifs", "ofefnsifs", and "ofensifs". 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, "offensive", "offensives", "offensif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is offensifs, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de offensif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how offensifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le match de mammouth de Rudy Gobert (20 points, 17 rebonds dont 7 offensifs et 7 fautes provoquées) en 8ᵉ contre la Turquie samedi, Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot a défendu le pivot de l’équipe de France, trop critiqué, selon lui.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofensifs
- ofefnsifs
- ofensifs
- offenisfs
- offennsifs
- offensfis
- offensiffs
- offensifss
- offensisf
- offenssifs
- offesnifs
- offnesifs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offensifs - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).