tardive
\taʁ.div\
The verdict
“tardive” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,674
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de tardif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardive · tardive · French
tardive · rank #11,674 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,674
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH suspendue
Nearest frequency peer: suspendue (-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 « tardive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Susan
Susan
88,330 corpus weight
- suscité
suscité
88,329 corpus weight
- suspendue
suspendue
88,328 corpus weight
- tardive
tardive
88,327 corpus weight
- terroir
terroir
88,326 corpus weight
- thriller
thriller
88,325 corpus weight
What this shows « tardive » 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 | tardive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʁ.div\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tardive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tardive (IPA \taʁ.div\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,674 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de tardif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tardive, with forms such as "atrdive", "tadrive", and "tarddive". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "tartine", "tardives", "tardé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tardive, spelled T-A-R-D-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de tardif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tardive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. de La Baudraye a dit que votre tardive grossesse exigeait que vos couches se fissent à Paris, et qu’il avait exigé que vous y allassiez pour y avoir les soins des princes de la médecine, répondit le substitut en devinant bien ce que Dinah voulait savoir.
Il faut en effet se rappeler que l’existence de ce Solutréen fit l’objet de nombreuses controverses, telle la prise en considération quelque peu tardive par Mme de Sonneville-Bordes des PAP et PCM comme éléments différentiels de ce faciès ; certains préhistoriens ayant même été jusqu’à remettre en cause la présence d’un Solutréen inférieur au Parpallô : G…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrdive
- tadrive
- tarddive
- tardiev
- tardivve
- tardvie
- taridve
- tarrdive
- tradive
- ttardive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tardive - 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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Same letter count
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