acheteur
\aʃ(.ə).tœʁ\
The verdict
“acheteur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,190
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui achète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acheteur · acheteur · French
acheteur · rank #8,190 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,190
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accrocher
Nearest frequency peer: accrocher (-2 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 « acheteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- acceptation
acceptation
91,815 corpus weight
- accroche
accroche
91,814 corpus weight
- accrocher
accrocher
91,813 corpus weight
- acheteur
acheteur
91,811 corpus weight
- adhérents
adhérents
91,809 corpus weight
- armement
armement
91,808 corpus weight
What this shows « acheteur » 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 | acheteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʃ(.ə).tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acheteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around acheteur (IPA \aʃ(.ə).tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,190 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for acheteur, with forms such as "accheteur", "acehteur", and "acheetur". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "acteur", "achetez", "achever", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 acheteur, spelled A-C-H-E-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui achète.
- 2Client d’une activité commerciale ou industrielle.
- 3Celui dont c’est la profession d’acheter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acheteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caton disait que le père de famille doit être vendeur plutôt qu’acheteur.
Puis, en grosses lettres, cette phrase : « Plus il y aura d’acheteurs de blé, meuniers ou négociants, plus les agriculteurs vendront le leur facilement et cher. » Il est hors de contestation que, si des éléments de concurrence nouveaux devaient surgir, le cultivateur y trouverait son compte.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accheteur
- acehteur
- acheetur
- acheteru
- acheteurr
- achetteur
- achetuer
- achheteur
- achteeur
- ahceteur
- caheteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acheteur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).