buveur

\by.vœʁ\

/\by.vœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“buveur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,744
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui boit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-buveur · buveur · French

buveur · rank #36,744 · 8 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,744
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bundestag

Nearest frequency peer: Bundestag (-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 « buveur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « buveur » 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).

buveur vs buvez
67% similar
buveur vs buveurs
86% similar
buveur vs beur
67% similar

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

Key facts for buveur
PropertyValue
Headwordbuveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\by.vœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,744
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « buveur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.buveurse 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 « Bundestag » (#36,743), « canines » (#36,745), « cannibale » (#36,746). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « buveur » est au #36,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around buveur (IPA \by.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,744 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for buveur, with forms such as "bbuveur", "buevur", and "buveru". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "buvez", "buveurs", "beur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 buveur, spelled B-U-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui boit.
  2. 2
    Curiste, personne qui boit de l’eau dans les stations thermales.
  3. 3
    Homme qui aime le vin, qui est sujet au vin et qui boit beaucoup.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Au troisième stade, si le buveur y arrivait, c’était l’enivrement complet. L’homme tombait ivre-mort et rien au monde ne pouvait le tirer de son sommeil profond.
  2. La plus récente causerie de Wambery portait sur l’existence d’un tyran walachien, le Voïvode Drakula (ou Vlad Drakul), réputé buveur de sang humain. Le tout-Londres ne parle bientôt plus que de vampires.

Synonyms

ivrogne

This word in other languages

drinker(English)bebedor(Español)Trinker(Deutsch)alcoólatra(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbuveur
  • buevur
  • buveru
  • buveurr
  • buvuer
  • buvveur
  • bvueur
  • ubveur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buveur - 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.

bbuveur1buevur2buveru2buveurr1buvuer2buvveur1bvueur2ubveur2
Edit distance from "buveur"

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 "buveur"?
"buveur" is spelled B-U-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \by.vœʁ\.
What does "buveur" mean?
As a noun, "buveur" means: Personne qui boit.
What words are commonly confused with "buveur"?
"buveur" is commonly confused with "buvez", "buveurs", "beur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "buveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "buveur" is \by.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "buveur" come from?
"buveur" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

brigue#36,739casher#36,749cassos#36,750Brasil#36,736

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

boulon8 variantsAçores8 variantsébloui8 variantsVesoul8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list