commentateur
\kɔ.mɑ̃.ta.tœʁ\
The verdict
“commentateur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,836
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur de commentaires littéraires, historiques, juridiques, sportifs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commentateur · commentateur · French
commentateur · rank #15,836 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,836
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clandestin
Nearest frequency peer: clandestin (-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 « commentateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cheminement
cheminement
84,169 corpus weight
- cheveu
cheveu
84,168 corpus weight
- choisissant
choisissant
84,167 corpus weight
- clandestin
clandestin
84,166 corpus weight
- commentateur
commentateur
84,165 corpus weight
- continueront
continueront
84,162 corpus weight
What this shows « commentateur » 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 | commentateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.ta.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #15,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « commentateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around commentateur (IPA \kɔ.mɑ̃.ta.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for commentateur, with forms such as "ccommentateur", "cmomentateur", and "comemntateur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "commutateur", "commentateurs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 commentateur, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Auteur de commentaires littéraires, historiques, juridiques, sportifs, etc.
- 2Celui qui fait divers commentaires sur ce qu’il ignore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commentateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon livre, le voilà tel que je l'ai fait et tel qu'on doit le lire, avant que les commentateurs ne l'obscurcissent de leurs éclaircissements.
Raschi, en se cantonnant dans son rôle de commentateur, s'est attiré, lui, la reconnaissance de tous.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommentateur
- cmomentateur
- comemntateur
- comentateur
- commenatteur
- commenntateur
- commentaetur
- commentateru
- commentateurr
- commentatteur
- commentatuer
- commenttaeur
- commenttateur
- commetnateur
- commnetateur
- ocmmentateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commentateur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "commentateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).