agriculteur
\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\
The verdict
“agriculteur” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #11,517 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,517
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme qui, à titre professionnel, cultive la terre ou élève des animaux destinés à être consommés.
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 | agriculteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agriculteur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agriculteur is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,517 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Homme qui, à titre professionnel, cultive la terre ou élève des animaux destinés à être consommés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for agriculteur, with forms such as "aggriculteur", "agirculteur", and "agrciulteur". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apiculteur", "agriculture", "agriculteurs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is agriculteur, spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Homme qui, à titre professionnel, cultive la terre ou élève des animaux destinés à être consommés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aggriculteur,agirculteur,agrciulteur,agricculteur,agricluteur,agriculetur,agricullteur,agriculteru,agriculteurr,agricultteur,agricutleur,agriuclteur,agrriculteur,argiculteur,gariculteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agriculteur - 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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Using “agriculteur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “apiculteur” - see the side-by-side comparison. agriculteur vs apiculteur
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.