offensive
\ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\
The verdict
“offensive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,684
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attaque que l’on fait sans avoir été provoqué par l’adversaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensive · offensive · French
offensive · rank #5,684 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,684
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occupent
Nearest frequency peer: occupent (-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 « offensive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nue
nue
94,320 corpus weight
- occidentaux
occidentaux
94,319 corpus weight
- occupent
occupent
94,318 corpus weight
- offensive
offensive
94,317 corpus weight
- ouvrier
ouvrier
94,316 corpus weight
- oxygène
oxygène
94,315 corpus weight
What this shows « offensive » 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 | offensive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « offensive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around offensive (IPA \ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,684 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Attaque que l’on fait sans avoir été provoqué par l’adversaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for offensive, with forms such as "fofensive", "ofefnsive", and "ofensive". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "offensives", "offense", "offensif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is offensive, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Attaque que l’on fait sans avoir été provoqué par l’adversaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offensive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La soudaine irruption d’un ennemi prêt à l’offensive n’eut d’autre effet immédiat sur New York que d’accroître sa véhémence habituelle.
C'est le 6 avril 1917, le jour du Vendredi-Saint, une semaine avant l'offensive du Chemin des Dames, que le maréchal des logis Clérisse s'envola sur un Sopwith-Clerget.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofensive
- ofefnsive
- ofensive
- offenisve
- offennsive
- offensiev
- offensivve
- offenssive
- offensvie
- offesnive
- offnesive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offensive - 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).