positivement
\pɔ.zi.tiv.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“positivement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,867
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière sûre, certaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-positivement · positivement · French
positivement · rank #13,867 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,867
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH podcast
Nearest frequency peer: podcast (-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 « positivement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pink
pink
86,137 corpus weight
- plais
plais
86,136 corpus weight
- podcast
podcast
86,135 corpus weight
- positivement
positivement
86,134 corpus weight
- possessions
possessions
86,133 corpus weight
- pou
pou
86,132 corpus weight
What this shows « positivement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | positivement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pɔ.zi.tiv.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #13,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « positivement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around positivement (IPA \pɔ.zi.tiv.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #13,867 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for positivement, with forms such as "opsitivement", "poistivement", and "posiitvement". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is positivement, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière sûre, certaine.
- 2D’une manière précise.
- 3Avec une charge d’électricité positive.
- 4Précisément, exactement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how positivement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle rougit positivement et une flamme brilla dans ses grands yeux bleus. La rougeur passa vite et la flamme s'éteignit aussitôt.
Mais on devrait se rappeler que pendant un long temps la coïncidence de la rotation de la Lune avec sa révolution sidérale, […], a été considérée comme un fait positivement miraculeux ; et qu’il y avait, même parmi les astronomes, une singulière disposition à attribuer cette merveille à l’agence directe et continue de Dieu, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsitivement
- poistivement
- posiitvement
- positievment
- positiveemnt
- positivemennt
- positivementt
- positivemetn
- positivemment
- positivemnet
- positivmeent
- positivvement
- posittivement
- positviement
- possitivement
- postiivement
- ppositivement
- psoitivement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positivement - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).