buster
\ˈbʌs.tə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“buster” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,383
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (principalement dans la construction buster of…) Casseur, destructeur, exploseur de… dans le sens personne qui casse, détruit, explose un type d'objet donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buster · buster · French
buster · rank #31,383 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Buchanan
Nearest frequency peer: Buchanan (-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 « buster »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bruyamment
bruyamment
68,621 corpus weight
- BTW
BTW
68,620 corpus weight
- Buchanan
Buchanan
68,619 corpus weight
- buster
buster
68,618 corpus weight
- bénédictins
bénédictins
68,616 corpus weight
- Cadix
Cadix
68,615 corpus weight
What this shows « buster » 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 | buster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbʌs.tə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « buster »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around buster (IPA \ˈbʌs.tə(ɹ)\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,383 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for buster, with forms such as "bbuster", "bsuter", and "busetr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bute", "buter", "butée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is buster, spelled B-U-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1(principalement dans la construction buster of…) Casseur, destructeur, exploseur de… dans le sens personne qui casse, détruit, explose un type d'objet donné.
- 2Désigne une unité, un groupe spécialisé dans la destruction d'un type d'objectif donné.
- 3(principalement dans la construction buster of…) Dompteur.
- 4Pote.
- 5Loser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ghost buster
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuster
- bsuter
- busetr
- busster
- busterr
- bustre
- bustter
- butser
- ubster
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buster - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "buster", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).