agresseur

\a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\

/\a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“agresseur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,817
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agresseur · agresseur · French

agresseur · rank #10,817 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,817
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ahah

Nearest frequency peer: ahah (+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 « agresseur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « agresseur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

agresseur vs assesseur
78% similar
agresseur vs agresseurs
90% similar
agresseur vs agresse
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for agresseur
PropertyValue
Headwordagresseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,817
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agresseur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agresseurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ahah » (#10,818), « accro » (#10,815), « aimant » (#10,819). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agresseur » est au #10,817. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around agresseur (IPA \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,817 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for agresseur, with forms such as "agersseur", "aggresseur", and "agresesur". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "assesseur", "agresseurs", "agresse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 agresseur, spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how agresseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le triomphe d’un blessé n’a jamais disculpé l’agresseur.
  2. L’agresseur, qui fait ainsi l’économie d’une atteinte physique et d’une atteinte à sa dignité (la victime qu’il s’est choisie les subira à sa place), recherche activement l’atteinte psychique par effraction (liée au non-sens effroyable des violences exercées) pour être en survoltage extrême et faire disjoncter son circuit émotionnel.

Synonyms

attaquantviolent

This word in other languages

aggressor(English)agresor(Español)Aggressor(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agersseur
  • aggresseur
  • agresesur
  • agreseur
  • agresseru
  • agresseurr
  • agressuer
  • agrresseur
  • agrseseur
  • argesseur
  • garesseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agresseur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

agersseur2aggresseur1agresesur2agreseur1agresseru2agresseurr1agressuer2agrresseur1
Edit distance from "agresseur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agresseur"?
"agresseur" is spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\.
What does "agresseur" mean?
As a noun, "agresseur" means: Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.
What words are commonly confused with "agresseur"?
"agresseur" is commonly confused with "assesseur", "agresseurs", "agresse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agresseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agresseur" is \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agresseur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agresseur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

capturer11 variantsCaraïbes11 variantschèques11 variantssuicider11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list