positives
\pɔ.zi.tiv\
The verdict
“positives” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,287. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,287
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de positif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-positives · positives · French
positives · rank #8,287 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,287
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquer
Nearest frequency peer: piquer (-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 « positives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pau
pau
91,717 corpus weight
- perles
perles
91,716 corpus weight
- piquer
piquer
91,715 corpus weight
- positives
positives
91,714 corpus weight
- poussent
poussent
91,713 corpus weight
- privilèges
privilèges
91,712 corpus weight
What this shows « positives » 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 | positives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.zi.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « positives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around positives (IPA \pɔ.zi.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,287 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de positif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for positives, with forms such as "opsitives", "poistives", and "posiitves". 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, "positive", "positifs", "positions", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is positives, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de positif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how positives 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:
- opsitives
- poistives
- posiitves
- positievs
- positivess
- positivse
- positivves
- posittives
- positvies
- possitives
- postiives
- ppositives
- psoitives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positives - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).