positive
\pɔ.zi.tiv\
The verdict
“positive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,011
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de positif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-positive · positive · French
positive · rank #4,011 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,011
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personnalités
Nearest frequency peer: personnalités (-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 « positive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perdue
perdue
95,992 corpus weight
- personnalit…
personnalités
95,991 corpus weight
- positive
positive
95,990 corpus weight
- producteur
producteur
95,989 corpus weight
- précédemment
précédemment
95,988 corpus weight
- prévention
prévention
95,987 corpus weight
What this shows « positive » 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 | positive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.zi.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « positive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around positive (IPA \pɔ.zi.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de positif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for positive, with forms such as "opsitive", "poistive", and "posiitve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "punitive", "positives", "positivité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is positive, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de positif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how positive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie laborieuse, active, toute estimable, toute positive, d’un conseiller d’État, d’un manufacturier de tissus de coton ou d’un banquier fort alerte pour les emprunts, est récompensée par des millions, et non par des sensations tendres.
Il s’agit maintenant, après les renvois tout de même utiles de Hartmann à la sphère de la possibilité — surtout après sa positive bataille contre la tyrannie du possible aristotélicien conçu comme un étant diminué et réduit de moitié par rapport au réel —, de voir s’il ne subsiste pas un nouveau type de possibilité artistique du réel, qui au lieu de rompr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsitive
- poistive
- posiitve
- positiev
- positivve
- posittive
- positvie
- possitive
- postiive
- ppositive
- psoitive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positive - 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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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).