restrictives
\ʁɛs.tʁik.tiv\
The verdict
“restrictives” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,988. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,988
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de restrictif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restrictives · restrictives · French
restrictives · rank #32,988 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,988
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resterais
Nearest frequency peer: resterais (-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 « restrictives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renversant
renversant
67,016 corpus weight
- repentance
repentance
67,015 corpus weight
- resterais
resterais
67,014 corpus weight
- restrictives
restrictives
67,013 corpus weight
- reversé
reversé
67,012 corpus weight
- risible
risible
67,011 corpus weight
What this shows « restrictives » 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 | restrictives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tʁik.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restrictives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around restrictives (IPA \ʁɛs.tʁik.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,988 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de restrictif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for restrictives, with forms such as "erstrictives", "resrtictives", and "resstrictives". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "restrictive", "restrictions", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is restrictives, spelled R-E-S-T-R-I-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de restrictif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how restrictives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En même temps, dans le cadre de l’Union Européenne, on a assisté à l’harmonisation des politiques sur le droit d’asile, ce que certains considèrent comme étant une perte de contrôle pour les États membres, mais ce que d’autres, peut-être avec plus de justesse, ont décrit comme étant un moyen de supranationaliser les problèmes et les décisions difficiles,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstrictives
- resrtictives
- resstrictives
- restirctives
- restrcitives
- restricctives
- restricitves
- restrictievs
- restrictivess
- restrictivse
- restrictivves
- restricttives
- restrictvies
- restritcives
- restrrictives
- resttrictives
- retsrictives
- rrestrictives
- rsetrictives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restrictives - 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 (19 here; floor ≥5).