Which to use
“locative” and “locatives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,024
- “locative” frequency rank
- #42,438
- “locatives” frequency rank
- 71462
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | locative | locatives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de locatif. | Féminin pluriel de locatif. |
Same sound, different letters: locative vs locatives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: locative vs locatives
This is the hard kind. locative and locatives are pronounced identically (\lɔ.ka.tiv\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “locative” sits inside “locatives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71462, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
locative is recorded at frequency rank #29,024, classified as anadj, pronounced \lɔ.ka.tiv\. locatives is at rank #42,438, tagged as anadj, pronounced \lɔ.ka.tiv\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 71462, this pair ranks #47,470 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of locative vs locatives
Shared letters: aceilotv. Private to "locative": -. Private to "locatives": s.
"locative" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "locatives" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "locative" and "locatives" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "locative" or "locatives"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "locative" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "locatives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #47,470 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "locative" and "locatives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "locatives vs lucratives". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #47,470 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.