contrôleurs
\kɔ̃.tʁo.lœʁ\
The verdict
“contrôleurs” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,554
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de contrôleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controleurs · contrôleurs · French
contrôleurs · rank #13,554 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,554
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH contradictoire
Nearest frequency peer: contradictoire (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “contrôleurs”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- consolidati…
consolidation
86,450 corpus weight
- consolider
consolider
86,449 corpus weight
- contradicto…
contradictoire
86,448 corpus weight
- contrôleurs
contrôleurs
86,447 corpus weight
- corner
corner
86,446 corpus weight
- cornes
cornes
86,445 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “contrôleurs” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | contrôleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁo.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrôleurs” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around contrôleurs (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁo.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,554 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contrôleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrôleurs, with forms such as "ccontrôleurs", "cnotrôleurs", and "conntrôleurs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contrôler", "contrôles", "contrôleur", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contrôleurs, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrôleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrôleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La limande qui mouillait pour sa correspondance respire, elle glose et reglose sur les contrôleurs qui blablabla et remet une couche de sale satisfaction de vieille morue recrépie sûre de son « bon droit » - et une bonne droite dans ta gueule de bourgeoise, vieillasse ?…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrôleurs
- cnotrôleurs
- conntrôleurs
- conrtôleurs
- contrlôeurs
- controleurs
- contrrôleurs
- contrôelurs
- contrôlerus
- contrôleurrs
- contrôleurss
- contrôleusr
- contrôlleurs
- contrôluers
- conttrôleurs
- contôrleurs
- cotnrôleurs
- ocntrôleurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrôleurs - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contrôleurs", 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 (18 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.