sportives
\spɔʁ.tiv\
The verdict
“sportives” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,381. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,381
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de sportif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sportives · sportives · French
sportives · rank #7,381 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,381
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spirituel
Nearest frequency peer: spirituel (-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 « sportives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sombres
sombres
92,623 corpus weight
- spectateur
spectateur
92,622 corpus weight
- spirituel
spirituel
92,621 corpus weight
- sportives
sportives
92,620 corpus weight
- surnom
surnom
92,619 corpus weight
- suspects
suspects
92,618 corpus weight
What this shows « sportives » 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 | sportives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɔʁ.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sportives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sportives (IPA \spɔʁ.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,381 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de sportif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sportives, with forms such as "psortives", "soprtives", and "sporitves". 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, "sorties", "sportive", "sportifs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sportives, spelled S-P-O-R-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de sportif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sportives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Éducatrices sportives diplômées d’État, Sandrine Martin et Maguy Roucoules sont toutes les deux férues de Zumba.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psortives
- soprtives
- sporitves
- sporrtives
- sportievs
- sportivess
- sportivse
- sportivves
- sporttives
- sportvies
- spotrives
- spportives
- sprotives
- ssportives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sportives - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).