coauteur
\kɔ.o.tœʁ\
The verdict
“coauteur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,710
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur d’un ouvrage écrit en collaboration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coauteur · coauteur · French
coauteur · rank #38,710 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,710
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coat
Nearest frequency peer: coat (-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 « coauteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Claudius
Claudius
61,294 corpus weight
- coat
coat
61,292 corpus weight
- coauteur
coauteur
61,291 corpus weight
- Coligny
Coligny
61,290 corpus weight
- Comeau
Comeau
61,289 corpus weight
- comfort
comfort
61,288 corpus weight
What this shows « coauteur » 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 | coauteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coauteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around coauteur (IPA \kɔ.o.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,710 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for coauteur, with forms such as "caouteur", "ccoauteur", and "coatueur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "coûter", "couleur", "coûteux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coauteur, spelled C-O-A-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Auteur d’un ouvrage écrit en collaboration.
- 2Complice dans une action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coauteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle sera accompagnée de son coauteur, l’illustrateur François Ravard.
« Dans cette saison 2, on essaie d’explorer la liberté de pensée des années 1980, associée à cette envie de capitalisme… Comment jongler avec des deux quêtes presque antinomiques ? », analyse Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud, cocréateur et coauteur de la série.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caouteur
- ccoauteur
- coatueur
- coauetur
- coauteru
- coauteurr
- coautteur
- coautuer
- couateur
- ocauteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coauteur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).