répressive
\ʁe.pʁɛ.siv\
The verdict
“répressive” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de répressif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-repressive · répressive · French
répressive · rank #29,967 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,967
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répertorié
Nearest frequency peer: répertorié (-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 « répressive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réjouissent
réjouissent
70,037 corpus weight
- réorienter
réorienter
70,036 corpus weight
- répertorié
répertorié
70,035 corpus weight
- répressive
répressive
70,034 corpus weight
- sacrilège
sacrilège
70,033 corpus weight
- sarcophage
sarcophage
70,031 corpus weight
What this shows « répressive » 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 | répressive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.pʁɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « répressive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around répressive (IPA \ʁe.pʁɛ.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,967 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de répressif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for répressive, with forms such as "repressive", "rpéressive", and "rrépressive". 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, "répressives", "répressif", "répression", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is répressive, spelled R-É-P-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de répressif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- repressive
- rpéressive
- rrépressive
- réperssive
- réppressive
- répresisve
- répresive
- répressiev
- répressivve
- répressvie
- réprressive
- réprsesive
- rérpessive
- érpressive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of répressive - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).