positifs
\pɔ.zi.tif\
The verdict
“positifs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,543
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de positif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-positifs · positifs · French
positifs · rank #6,543 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portraits
Nearest frequency peer: portraits (-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 « positifs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- podium
podium
93,461 corpus weight
- poing
poing
93,460 corpus weight
- portraits
portraits
93,459 corpus weight
- positifs
positifs
93,458 corpus weight
- psy
psy
93,457 corpus weight
- rapprocheme…
rapprochement
93,456 corpus weight
What this shows « positifs » 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 | positifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.zi.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « positifs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around positifs (IPA \pɔ.zi.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,543 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de positif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for positifs, with forms such as "opsitifs", "poistifs", and "posiitfs". 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, "position", "positive", "positions", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is positifs, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de positif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how positifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces expériences positives sont tendancieusement passées sous silence : tout se passe comme si, dans l’intention de fonder une philosophie désespérée du désir comme manque insurmontable, Schopenhauer s’interdisait volontairement de faire état de contenus positifs universellement expérimentés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsitifs
- poistifs
- posiitfs
- positfis
- positiffs
- positifss
- positisf
- posittifs
- possitifs
- postiifs
- ppositifs
- psoitifs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positifs - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).