capteur
\kap.tœʁ\
The verdict
“capteur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,623. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,623
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui capte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capteur · capteur · French
capteur · rank #14,623 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,623
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captain
Nearest frequency peer: captain (-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 « capteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bâtie
bâtie
85,381 corpus weight
- camionnette
camionnette
85,380 corpus weight
- captain
captain
85,379 corpus weight
- capteur
capteur
85,378 corpus weight
- caron
caron
85,377 corpus weight
- carrosserie
carrosserie
85,376 corpus weight
What this shows « capteur » 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 | capteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kap.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around capteur (IPA \kap.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,623 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui capte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for capteur, with forms such as "acpteur", "capetur", and "cappteur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "carter", "capture", "conteur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is capteur, spelled C-A-P-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui capte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how capteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec une bonté indulgente, capteuse, perspicace, avec une adresse presque maternelle qui force l’expansion cordiale, appelle les confidences, le Père de Marel l’interrogeait, et Sébastien s’abandonnait à l’impérieuse joie de lui répondre, au soulageant besoin d’ouvrir ce cœur, trop violenté, trop solitaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpteur
- capetur
- cappteur
- capteru
- capteurr
- captteur
- catpeur
- ccapteur
- cpateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capteur - 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 "capteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).