cantauteur
\kɑ̃.to.tœʁ\
The verdict
“cantauteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artiste qui écrit les paroles et qui compose la musique des chansons qu’il interprète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantauteur · cantauteur · French
cantauteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | cantauteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.to.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cantauteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.to.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Artiste qui écrit les paroles et qui compose la musique des chansons qu’il interprète.".
cantauteur has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cantauteur, spelled C-A-N-T-A-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Artiste qui écrit les paroles et qui compose la musique des chansons qu’il interprète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cantauteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; Francesco Guccini est, heureusement, encore bien vivant, gaillard et nous voulons dire qu’il lutte aussi avec nous. Peut-être, écrivant sur la liste d’un cantauteur vraiment mort, un Génois, entendais-je éloigner les spectres.
JARA Victor (1932-1973) fut un musicien, cantauteur, professeur, directeur de théâtre et membre du Parti communiste chilien.
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.