sélectives
\se.lɛk.tiv\
The verdict
“sélectives” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de sélectif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selectives · sélectives · French
sélectives · rank #45,341 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,341
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sélectionnez
Nearest frequency peer: sélectionnez (-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 « sélectives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- syrah
syrah
54,663 corpus weight
- séchoir
séchoir
54,662 corpus weight
- sélectionnez
sélectionnez
54,661 corpus weight
- sélectives
sélectives
54,660 corpus weight
- tall
tall
54,658 corpus weight
- terriers
terriers
54,657 corpus weight
What this shows « sélectives » 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 | sélectives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.lɛk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sélectives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around sélectives (IPA \se.lɛk.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,341 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de sélectif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sélectives, with forms such as "selectives", "sléectives", and "ssélectives". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sélective", "sélectifs", "sélections", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sélectives, spelled S-É-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de sélectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sélectives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres méthodes permettent de mesurer ou d’estimer la phytodisponibilité des métaux : cultures tests, tests microbiologiques, méthodes isotopiques, extractions chimiques sélectives et modélisation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- selectives
- sléectives
- ssélectives
- séelctives
- sélcetives
- sélecctives
- sélecitves
- sélectievs
- sélectivess
- sélectivse
- sélectivves
- sélecttives
- sélectvies
- séletcives
- séllectives
- éslectives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sélectives - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).