continuateur
\kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“continuateur” is uncommon French (frequency #75,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,536
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui continue après d'autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continuateur · continuateur · French
continuateur · rank #75,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,536
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conta
Nearest frequency peer: conta (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « continuateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- connivences
connivences
24,469 corpus weight
- conservèrent
conservèrent
24,468 corpus weight
- conspire
conspire
24,467 corpus weight
- conta
conta
24,466 corpus weight
- continuateur
continuateur
24,465 corpus weight
- continueras
continueras
24,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « continuateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | continuateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « continuateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
continuateur is uncommon French at frequency #75,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
continuateur has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is continuateur, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui continue après d'autres.
- 2Celui qui continue l’ouvrage d’un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how continuateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques personnages ont changé, mais le but est semblable ; les moyens sont les mêmes, avec cette différence, que les continuateurs ont augmenté leurs ressources, & accru le nombre de leurs partisans.
Aujourd'hui, en de nombreuses localités, les hommes de métier ne forment plus guère de continuateurs et leur disparition serait pour l'Aveyron une cause de décadence de plus.
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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