radioactive
\ʁa.djo.ak.tiv\
The verdict
“radioactive” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,931
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de radioactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radioactive · radioactive · French
radioactive · rank #29,931 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,931
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rabbi
Nearest frequency peer: rabbi (-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 « radioactive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Puteaux
Puteaux
70,073 corpus weight
- rab
rab
70,072 corpus weight
- rabbi
rabbi
70,071 corpus weight
- radioactive
radioactive
70,070 corpus weight
- radiologie
radiologie
70,069 corpus weight
- rae
rae
70,068 corpus weight
What this shows « radioactive » 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 | radioactive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.djo.ak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « radioactive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around radioactive (IPA \ʁa.djo.ak.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,931 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de radioactif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for radioactive, with forms such as "ardioactive", "raddioactive", and "radiaoctive". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "radioactives", "radioactivité", "radioactif", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is radioactive, spelled R-A-D-I-O-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de radioactif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how radioactive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces appareils permettent aussi le fonctionnement panoramique: la source radioactive est déplacée plus ou moins dans un tube de guidage, et peut gammagraphier des soudures circulaires dans des canalisations.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ardioactive
- raddioactive
- radiaoctive
- radioacctive
- radioacitve
- radioactiev
- radioactivve
- radioacttive
- radioactvie
- radioatcive
- radiocative
- radoiactive
- raidoactive
- rdaioactive
- rradioactive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of radioactive - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).