rotative
\ʁɔ.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“rotative” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Presse rotative, machine employée surtout pour l’impression des journaux et qui imprime par un mouvement rotatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotative · rotative · French
rotative · rank #46,419 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,419
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH routeurs
Nearest frequency peer: routeurs (+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 « rotative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rho
rho
53,585 corpus weight
- Robyn
Robyn
53,584 corpus weight
- rotative
rotative
53,582 corpus weight
- routeurs
routeurs
53,581 corpus weight
- roué
roué
53,580 corpus weight
- Rowan
Rowan
53,579 corpus weight
What this shows « rotative » 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 | rotative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rotative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around rotative (IPA \ʁɔ.ta.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,419 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Presse rotative, machine employée surtout pour l’impression des journaux et qui imprime par un mouvement rotatoire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for rotative, with forms such as "ortative", "roattive", and "rotaitve". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rotatif", "relative", "rotation", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rotative, spelled R-O-T-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Presse rotative, machine employée surtout pour l’impression des journaux et qui imprime par un mouvement rotatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rotative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A minuit dix, la sirène a retenti, les cylindres de la rotative ont commencé de tourner, d’abord tout doucement pour entraîner sans la casser la longue bande de papier qu’un ouvrier accompagnait avec les deux mains.
Mais ils n’avaient pas à leur disposition tant de rotatives actionnées par l’électricité pour imprimer ça tous les jours dans les cerveaux de quatre-vingt-dix millions d’adultes […].
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ortative
- roattive
- rotaitve
- rotatiev
- rotativve
- rotattive
- rotatvie
- rottaive
- rottative
- rrotative
- rtoative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rotative - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).