aviateur

\a.vja.tœʁ\

/\a.vja.tœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“aviateur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,482
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pilote d’un aéronef, en particulier d’un avion.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aviateur · aviateur · French

aviateur · rank #30,482 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,482
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH avatars

Nearest frequency peer: avatars (-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 « aviateur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « aviateur » 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).

aviateur vs aviateurs
89% similar
aviateur vs amateur
75% similar
aviateur vs armateur
75% similar

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

Key facts for aviateur
PropertyValue
Headwordaviateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.vja.tœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#30,482
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aviateur »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « avatars » (#30,481), « avon » (#30,483), « autoportrait » (#30,480). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aviateur » est au #30,482. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around aviateur (IPA \a.vja.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,482 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aviateur, with forms such as "aivateur", "avaiteur", and "aviaetur". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "aviateurs", "amateur", "armateur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 aviateur, spelled A-V-I-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pilote d’un aéronef, en particulier d’un avion.
  2. 2
    Personne qui dirige un avion ou qui embarque sur un avion comme observateur, bombardier ou mitrailleur.
  3. 3
    Grade des Forces armées canadiennes.
  4. 4
    Aéronef.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tout était oublié : nous volions et seule la marche du moteur m’intéressait. Nous avions l’un et l’autre laissé derrière nous tout ce qui nous attache à la vie. Notre existence d’aviateur est ainsi faite.
  2. Cet aviateur, l’Albatros, se composait d’un bâti long de trente mètres, muni de deux propulseurs, l’un à l’avant, l’autre à l’arrière, et d’un jeu de trente-sept hélices suspensives d’axe vertical, soit quinze de chaque côté du bâti, et sept plus élevées au milieu de l’appareil.

This word in other languages

aviator(English)aeronauta(Español)Flieger(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aivateur
  • avaiteur
  • aviaetur
  • aviateru
  • aviateurr
  • aviatteur
  • aviatuer
  • avitaeur
  • avviateur
  • vaiateur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aviateur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aivateur2avaiteur2aviaetur2aviateru2aviateurr1aviatteur1aviatuer2avitaeur2
Edit distance from "aviateur"

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 "aviateur"?
"aviateur" is spelled A-V-I-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vja.tœʁ\.
What does "aviateur" mean?
As a noun, "aviateur" means: Pilote d’un aéronef, en particulier d’un avion.
What words are commonly confused with "aviateur"?
"aviateur" is commonly confused with "aviateurs", "amateur", "armateur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aviateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aviateur" is \a.vja.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aviateur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bienfait#30,488birthday#30,490blessent#30,491arbitrer#30,470

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

avatars10 variantsbéquille10 variantscaniveau10 variantsactivez10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list