cambrioleur

\kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\

/\kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cambrioleur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,239
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voleur qui a la spécialité de dévaliser les appartements.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cambrioleur · cambrioleur · French

cambrioleur · rank #25,239 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,239
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH bénigne

Nearest frequency peer: bénigne (-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 « cambrioleur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cambrioleur » 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).

cambrioleur vs cambrioleurs
92% similar
cambrioleur vs cambrioler
91% similar

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

Key facts for cambrioleur
PropertyValue
Headwordcambrioleur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#25,239
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cambrioleur »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cambrioleurse 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 « bénigne » (#25,238), « Canaries » (#25,240), « buvait » (#25,237). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cambrioleur » est au #25,239. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around cambrioleur (IPA \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,239 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Voleur qui a la spécialité de dévaliser les appartements.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for cambrioleur, with forms such as "acmbrioleur", "cabmrioleur", and "cambbrioleur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cambrioleurs", "cambrioler", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cambrioleur, spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-O-L-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voleur qui a la spécialité de dévaliser les appartements.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un ingénieur complice avait-il rédigé un message d’avertissement destiné aux cambrioleurs qui pratiquaient le langage morse : « Attention, immeuble ultra-surveillé, ami voleur, passe ton chemin » ?
  2. Les voleurs de voitures, les pickpockets, les pilleurs de troncs d'église et surtout les cambrioleurs sont le lot quotidien de ces policiers qu'il est fréquent de croiser dans les couloirs du troisième étage du Quai des Orfèvres, […].

This word in other languages

burglar(English)ladrón(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acmbrioleur
  • cabmrioleur
  • cambbrioleur
  • cambiroleur
  • cambriloeur
  • cambrioelur
  • cambrioleru
  • cambrioleurr
  • cambriolleur
  • cambrioluer
  • cambroileur
  • cambrrioleur
  • cammbrioleur
  • camrbioleur
  • ccambrioleur
  • cmabrioleur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

acmbrioleur2cabmrioleur2cambbrioleur1cambiroleur2cambriloeur2cambrioelur2cambrioleru2cambrioleurr1
Edit distance from "cambrioleur"

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 "cambrioleur"?
"cambrioleur" is spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-O-L-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\.
What does "cambrioleur" mean?
As a noun, "cambrioleur" means: Voleur qui a la spécialité de dévaliser les appartements.
What words are commonly confused with "cambrioleur"?
"cambrioleur" is commonly confused with "cambrioleurs", "cambrioler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cambrioleur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cambrioleur" is \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.lœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cambrioleur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

condamnent16 variantsconvergent16 variantsapproximatif16 variantsapprofondies16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list