relatives

Name: relatives, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ʁə.la.tiv\

/\ʁə.la.tiv\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“relatives” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,977
frequency rank, French: 5,742
“R” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de relatif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-relatives · relatives · French

relatives · rank #4,977 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #4,977
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,742
PHOTO-FINISH relatif

Nearest frequency peer: relatif (-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.

rapides

95,026
relatif

95,025
relatives

95,024
religions

95,023
rendue

95,022
reproche

95,021

What this shows « relatives » 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).

relatives vs relativise

80% similar

relatives vs relatés

67% similar

relatives vs relative

89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for relatives
Property	Value
Headword	relatives
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\ʁə.la.tiv\
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#4,977
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relatives »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).relativesse place ici:

#4,977

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « relatif » (#4,976), « religions » (#4,978), « rapides » (#4,975). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « relatives » est au #4,977. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around relatives (IPA \ʁə.la.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,977 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de relatif.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for relatives, with forms such as "erlatives", "realtives", and "relaitves". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "relativise", "relatés", "relative", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is relatives, spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E-S.

Definition

1
Féminin pluriel de relatif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how relatives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Les midrashim des Amoraim, amplifiant le midrash des Tannaim, traitent de deux sortes d’influence relatives à Dieu, l’une positive et l’autre négative.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

erlatives
realtives
relaitves
relatievs
relativess
relativse
relativves
relattives
relatvies
rellatives
reltaives
rleatives
rrelatives

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relatives - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "relatives"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "relatives"?

"relatives" is spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.la.tiv\.

What does "relatives" mean?

As an adjective, "relatives" means: Féminin pluriel de relatif.

What words are commonly confused with "relatives"?

"relatives" is commonly confused with "relativise", "relatés", "relative". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "relatives"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "relatives" is \ʁə.la.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "relatives" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "relatives", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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