chef opérateur
\ʃɛf‿ɔ.pe.ʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“chef opérateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chef-operateur · chef opérateur · French
chef opérateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | chef opérateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛf‿ɔ.pe.ʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chef opérateur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chef opérateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛf‿ɔ.pe.ʁa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.".
chef opérateur has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chef opérateur, spelled C-H-E-F- -O-P-É-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne responsable de la prise de vue dans un film ou une émission télévisée.
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