curateurs
\ky.ʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“curateurs” is uncommon French (frequency #87,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,510
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de curateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curateurs · curateurs · French
curateurs · rank #87,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cunégonde
Nearest frequency peer: Cunégonde (-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 « curateurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cule
cule
12,494 corpus weight
- cumulait
cumulait
12,493 corpus weight
- Cunégonde
Cunégonde
12,492 corpus weight
- curateurs
curateurs
12,491 corpus weight
- custode
custode
12,489 corpus weight
- cybercrimin…
cybercriminels
12,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curateurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curateurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curateurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curateurs is uncommon French at frequency #87,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de curateur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for curateurs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is curateurs, spelled C-U-R-A-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de curateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curateurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les curateurs, ou conservateurs, sont chargés du choix des espèces, de l'organisation des groupes sociaux dans chaque espèce, de la conception des installations animalières, de la coordination des élevages avec les autres zoos, de l'organisation des recherches éventuelles, de la tenue des registres animaliers, de la transmission des données recueillies…
Dans un parc animalier il existe de nombreux métiers : soigneurs et vétérinaires pour s’occuper des animaux au quotidien, curateurs et registraires pour gérer les populations, commerciaux pour promouvoir le site, jardiniers pour l’entretien de la végétation, comptables, médiateurs, scientifiques, directeur, etc.
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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