co-auteur
\ko.o.tœʁ\
The verdict
“co-auteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur d’un ouvrage écrit en collaboration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-co-auteur · co-auteur · French
co-auteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | co-auteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
co-auteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ko.o.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for co-auteur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 co-auteur, spelled C-O---A-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Auteur d’un ouvrage écrit en collaboration.
- 2Personne aidant activement l’auteur principal d’un acte criminel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how co-auteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle est le co-auteur avec Nadine Dormoy-Savage de « À chacun sa France ».
Il est auteur ou co-auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et chapitres et de plus d’une centaine de publications.
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.