qualificatif
\ka.li.fi.ka.tif\
The verdict
“qualificatif” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,296
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui énonce une qualité, bonne ou mauvaise, prêtée à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qualificatif · qualificatif · French
qualificatif · rank #18,296 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,296
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH périodiques
Nearest frequency peer: périodiques (-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 « qualificatif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prétends
prétends
81,707 corpus weight
- périodiques
périodiques
81,706 corpus weight
- qualificatif
qualificatif
81,705 corpus weight
- rade
rade
81,704 corpus weight
- read
read
81,703 corpus weight
- recensés
recensés
81,702 corpus weight
What this shows « qualificatif » 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 | qualificatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.fi.ka.tif\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « qualificatif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around qualificatif (IPA \ka.li.fi.ka.tif\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,296 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui énonce une qualité, bonne ou mauvaise, prêtée à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for qualificatif, with forms such as "qaulificatif", "qqualificatif", and "quailficatif". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "qualification", "qualificatifs", "qualificative", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 qualificatif, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Ce qui énonce une qualité, bonne ou mauvaise, prêtée à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how qualificatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être ce tremblement de terre avait-il plus particulièrement effrayé ces animaux, dont l’organisation est très fine, et même « très nerveuse », si, toutefois, ce qualificatif peut s’appliquer à un simple quadrupède !
—Vous êtes un sybarite, dit Mac Nabbs. — J’accepte le qualificatif, major.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaulificatif
- qqualificatif
- quailficatif
- qualfiicatif
- qualifciatif
- qualifficatif
- qualifiactif
- qualificaitf
- qualificatfi
- qualificatiff
- qualificattif
- qualificcatif
- qualifictaif
- qualiifcatif
- quallificatif
- qulaificatif
- uqalificatif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of qualificatif - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).