attrapeur
\at.ʁa.pœʁ\
The verdict
“attrapeur” is uncommon French (frequency #88,334 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,334
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui trompe, qui obtient artificieusement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attrapeur · attrapeur · French
attrapeur · rank #88,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,334
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assisterez
Nearest frequency peer: assisterez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « attrapeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asservit
asservit
11,669 corpus weight
- assisterez
assisterez
11,668 corpus weight
- attrapeur
attrapeur
11,667 corpus weight
- aubergistes
aubergistes
11,666 corpus weight
- Audubon
Audubon
11,665 corpus weight
- auris
auris
11,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attrapeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attrapeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \at.ʁa.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attrapeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attrapeur is uncommon French at frequency #88,334 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \at.ʁa.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui trompe, qui obtient artificieusement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for attrapeur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is attrapeur, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui trompe, qui obtient artificieusement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attrapeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un attrapeur de filles, un attrapeur de successions.
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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