successives
\syk.sɛ.siv\
The verdict
“successives” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,414
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de successif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-successives · successives · French
successives · rank #10,414 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,414
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sub
Nearest frequency peer: sub (-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 « successives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sourd
sourd
89,590 corpus weight
- ste
ste
89,589 corpus weight
- sub
sub
89,588 corpus weight
- successives
successives
89,587 corpus weight
- suffisait
suffisait
89,586 corpus weight
- surveille
surveille
89,585 corpus weight
What this shows « successives » 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 | successives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syk.sɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « successives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around successives (IPA \syk.sɛ.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,414 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de successif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for successives, with forms such as "scucessives", "ssuccessives", and "succesisves". 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, "successifs", "successions", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 successives, spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de successif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how successives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même en Perse, les successives conquêtes turques n’avaient pu désiraniser le pays, pourtant d’assez faible densité démographique, parce que les conquérants ne représentaient jamais que des clans turcomans peu nombreux.
En réalité, les nuits étoilées n’ont aucun intérêt, si ce n’est, face aux filles successives et génériques, certaine légitimité à la déblatération d’approximatives théories sur la fuite de l’univers que nous leur récitons pour les arnaquer, le but étant moins de rappeler sur un bout de plage mazoutée la valeur de la constante de Planck, que d'attirer l’at…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scucessives
- ssuccessives
- succesisves
- succesives
- successievs
- successivess
- successivse
- successivves
- successvies
- succsesives
- sucecssives
- sucessives
- usccessives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of successives - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).