réactive
\ʁe.ak.tiv\
The verdict
“réactive” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,958
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de réactif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reactive · réactive · French
réactive · rank #29,958 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,958
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH règlent
Nearest frequency peer: règlent (-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 « réactive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rouvre
rouvre
70,046 corpus weight
- règlent
règlent
70,044 corpus weight
- réactive
réactive
70,043 corpus weight
- réclamaient
réclamaient
70,042 corpus weight
- rédigées
rédigées
70,041 corpus weight
- régisseur
régisseur
70,040 corpus weight
What this shows « réactive » 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 | réactive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ak.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « réactive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around réactive (IPA \ʁe.ak.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,958 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de réactif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for réactive, with forms such as "raéctive", "reactive", and "rréactive". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "reçoive", "relative", "réactiver", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is réactive, spelled R-É-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de réactif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- raéctive
- reactive
- rréactive
- réacctive
- réacitve
- réactiev
- réactivve
- réacttive
- réactvie
- réatcive
- récative
- éractive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réactive - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).