offensives
\ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\
The verdict
“offensives” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,512. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,512
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de offensif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offensives · offensives · French
offensives · rank #20,512 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,512
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH négoce
Nearest frequency peer: négoce (-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 « offensives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mèches
mèches
79,493 corpus weight
- négoce
négoce
79,490 corpus weight
- offensives
offensives
79,489 corpus weight
- oliviers
oliviers
79,488 corpus weight
- oubliais
oubliais
79,487 corpus weight
- oubliera
oubliera
79,486 corpus weight
What this shows « offensives » 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 | offensives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « offensives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around offensives (IPA \ɔ.fɑ̃.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,512 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de offensif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for offensives, with forms such as "fofensives", "ofefnsives", and "ofensives". 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, "offensés", "offensive", "offensifs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is offensives, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de offensif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how offensives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au vu de la domination du PSG tout au long du match, les équipières de Grace Geyoro auraient pu marquer un but ou deux de plus, mais les joueuses du PFC, à défaut de se montrer très offensives, ont affiché une belle solidité défensive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofensives
- ofefnsives
- ofensives
- offenisves
- offennsives
- offensievs
- offensivess
- offensivse
- offensivves
- offenssives
- offensvies
- offesnives
- offnesives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offensives - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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