cafteur
\kaf.tœʁ\
The verdict
“cafteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapporteur, personne qui dénonce les actes ou les propos d’autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafteur · cafteur · French
cafteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaf.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cafteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cafteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaf.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rapporteur, personne qui dénonce les actes ou les propos d’autrui.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cafteur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cafteur, spelled C-A-F-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Rapporteur, personne qui dénonce les actes ou les propos d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cafteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je soufflai la combinaison au gardien qui balayait les vestiaires et avait fini par m’entendre tambouriner. Pour ne pas m’attirer plus d’ennuis en passant pour un cafteur, je jurai m’être bêtement enfermé tout seul en cherchant à me cacher.
Balance : indicateur de la police. Aussi : tonton, donneur, dic, cafard, mouche, taupe, cafteur, poucave, cousin, casserole.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.