passives
\pa.siv\
The verdict
“passives” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,591
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de passive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passives · passives · French
passives · rank #43,591 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,591
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passivement
Nearest frequency peer: passivement (-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 « passives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parlante
parlante
56,413 corpus weight
- parés
parés
56,412 corpus weight
- passivement
passivement
56,411 corpus weight
- passives
passives
56,410 corpus weight
- payais
payais
56,409 corpus weight
- PDC
PDC
56,408 corpus weight
What this shows « passives » 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 | passives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.siv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around passives (IPA \pa.siv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,591 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de passive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for passives, with forms such as "apssives", "pasisves", and "pasives". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "passés", "passées", "passive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 passives, spelled P-A-S-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de passive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour bien dire, il s’attendait à être aidé davantage par cette vieille peau de mère Pillot qui continuait à jouer les passives jouvencelles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssives
- pasisves
- pasives
- passievs
- passivess
- passivse
- passivves
- passvies
- ppassives
- psasives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passives - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).