sportive

\spɔʁ.tiv\

/\spɔʁ.tiv\/ noun

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The verdict

“sportive” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,192
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui pratique un sport.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sportive · sportive · French

sportive · rank #5,192 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,192
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spectateurs

Nearest frequency peer: spectateurs (-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 « sportive »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sportive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sportive vs sportives
89% similar
sportive vs sortie
75% similar
sportive vs sportif
75% similar

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

Key facts for sportive
PropertyValue
Headwordsportive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spɔʁ.tiv\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,192
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sportive »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sportivese place ici:

#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 « spectateurs » (#5,191), « souhaitent » (#5,190), « tante » (#5,194). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sportive » est au #5,192. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sportive (IPA \spɔʁ.tiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,192 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sportive, with forms such as "psortive", "soprtive", and "sporitve". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sportives", "sortie", "sportif", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sportive, spelled S-P-O-R-T-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui pratique un sport.
  2. 2
    Voiture sportive.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Matra travaille sur une super sportive à portes amovibles qui sortira en deux ou quatre roues motrices.

Synonyms

athlète

This word in other languages

sportswoman(English)deportista(Español)Sportlerin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • psortive
  • soprtive
  • sporitve
  • sporrtive
  • sportiev
  • sportivve
  • sporttive
  • sportvie
  • spotrive
  • spportive
  • sprotive
  • ssportive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

psortive2soprtive2sporitve2sporrtive1sportiev2sportivve1sporttive1sportvie2
Edit distance from "sportive"

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 "sportive"?
"sportive" is spelled S-P-O-R-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \spɔʁ.tiv\.
What does "sportive" mean?
As a noun, "sportive" means: Femme qui pratique un sport.
What words are commonly confused with "sportive"?
"sportive" is commonly confused with "sportives", "sortie", "sportif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sportive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sportive" is \spɔʁ.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sportive" come from?
"sportive" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

quiconque12 variantschallenge12 variantsCharlotte12 variantschasseurs12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list