comparateur
\kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“comparateur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,700
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument qui permet de détecter et de mesurer à l'échelle microscopique les différences de longueur entre deux pièces ou entre une pièce et un étalon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparateur · comparateur · French
comparateur · rank #29,700 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,700
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combinent
Nearest frequency peer: combinent (-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 « comparateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- colisée
colisée
70,304 corpus weight
- collégial
collégial
70,303 corpus weight
- combinent
combinent
70,302 corpus weight
- comparateur
comparateur
70,301 corpus weight
- compères
compères
70,300 corpus weight
- confiait
confiait
70,299 corpus weight
What this shows « comparateur » 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 | comparateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comparateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around comparateur (IPA \kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,700 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 comparateur, with forms such as "ccomparateur", "cmoparateur", and "comaprateur". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "compilateur", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comparateur, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui permet de détecter et de mesurer à l'échelle microscopique les différences de longueur entre deux pièces ou entre une pièce et un étalon.
- 2Logiciel permettant de comparer des prix, des tarifs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comparateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Comparateur de prix, d’assurances-vie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomparateur
- cmoparateur
- comaprateur
- commparateur
- compaarteur
- comparaetur
- comparateru
- comparateurr
- comparatteur
- comparatuer
- comparrateur
- compartaeur
- compparateur
- compraateur
- copmarateur
- ocmparateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comparateur - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comparateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).