tardif
\taʁ.dif\
The verdict
“tardif” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,874. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,874
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tarde ; qui vient tard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardif · tardif · French
tardif · rank #12,874 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,874
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tailler
Nearest frequency peer: tailler (-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 « tardif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sélectionner
sélectionner
87,130 corpus weight
- Séoul
Séoul
87,129 corpus weight
- tailler
tailler
87,128 corpus weight
- tardif
tardif
87,127 corpus weight
- tenais
tenais
87,126 corpus weight
- tinder
tinder
87,125 corpus weight
What this shows « tardif » 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 | tardif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʁ.dif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tardif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tardif (IPA \taʁ.dif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,874 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tardif, with forms such as "atrdif", "tadrif", and "tarddif". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "tari", "tarif", "Tariq", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tardif, spelled T-A-R-D-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui tarde ; qui vient tard.
- 2Qui est lent.
- 3Qui se forme lentement, qui n’arrive que lentement à son plein développement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tardif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, tous les cafés, tous les mastroquets étincelaient de lumière, ce qui est rare dans ce quartier éloigné de Paris, surtout à une heure si tardive.
L'arrière-saison prolongeait l'éclosion tardive des bolets, des russules "jolies", des tricholomes bleus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrdif
- tadrif
- tarddif
- tardfi
- tardiff
- taridf
- tarrdif
- tradif
- ttardif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tardif - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tardif", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).