subversif
\syb.vɛʁ.sif\
The verdict
“subversif” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,558
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui renverse, qui détruit
Corpus desk
Index FR-subversif · subversif · French
subversif · rank #39,558 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,558
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stupéfiante
Nearest frequency peer: stupéfiante (-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 « subversif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- storia
storia
60,445 corpus weight
- stupéfiante
stupéfiante
60,444 corpus weight
- subversif
subversif
60,443 corpus weight
- suivrai
suivrai
60,442 corpus weight
- summit
summit
60,441 corpus weight
- superficiels
superficiels
60,440 corpus weight
What this shows « subversif » 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 | subversif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syb.vɛʁ.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « subversif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around subversif (IPA \syb.vɛʁ.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,558 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for subversif, with forms such as "sbuversif", "ssubversif", and "subbversif". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "subversion", "subversive", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is subversif, spelled S-U-B-V-E-R-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui renverse, qui détruit
- 2Qui est de nature à perturber ou à renverser l'ordre social ou politique ou les idées communément admises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subversif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bakou (Azerbaïdjan) a rétorqué en accusant son voisin d’« actes subversifs à grande échelle à la frontière. »
Sa famille croyait qu’il avait des idées subversives. Mais il n’avait pas d’idées, il en manquait atrocement : son esprit, c’était une pauvre carcasse récurée par les vautours qui planent sur les grandes villes creuses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbuversif
- ssubversif
- subbversif
- subevrsif
- subverisf
- subverrsif
- subversfi
- subversiff
- subverssif
- subvesrif
- subvresif
- subvversif
- suvbersif
- usbversif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of subversif - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).