conteur
\kɔ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“conteur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,152
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui écrit ou raconte des contes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conteur · conteur · French
conteur · rank #23,152 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,152
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contestations
Nearest frequency peer: contestations (-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 « conteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conteneur
conteneur
76,851 corpus weight
- contestatio…
contestations
76,850 corpus weight
- conteur
conteur
76,849 corpus weight
- contourneme…
contournement
76,848 corpus weight
- contractuel…
contractuelle
76,847 corpus weight
- coûtait
coûtait
76,846 corpus weight
What this shows « conteur » 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 | conteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around conteur (IPA \kɔ̃.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,152 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for conteur, with forms such as "cconteur", "cnoteur", and "conetur". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coter", "coûter", "couleur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is conteur, spelled C-O-N-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui écrit ou raconte des contes.
- 2Auteur de romans et de nouvelles.
- 3Celui qui invente des histoires pour abuser autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appartenant à la grande confrérie des conteurs et chanteurs errants, ce troubadour marocain ne possède pour toute fortune qu'un âne famélique, un vieux haïk en lambeaux, une pipe et une blague à kif et un petit instrument primitif à deux cordes, un gimbri, attribut de son état.
Certes, Jean-Luc en tira l’avantage essentiel en utilisant ses talents de conteur qui transformaient en acte de bravoure sa fuite devant les policiers. Mais il eut le bon goût de m’associer dans le récit de son épopée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconteur
- cnoteur
- conetur
- connteur
- conteru
- conteurr
- contteur
- contuer
- cotneur
- ocnteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conteur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "conteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).