débatteur
\de.ba.tœʁ\
The verdict
“débatteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui débat, qui participe à un ou plusieurs débats.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debatteur · débatteur · French
débatteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débatteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ba.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débatteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débatteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ba.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui débat, qui participe à un ou plusieurs débats.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for débatteur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is débatteur, spelled D-É-B-A-T-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui débat, qui participe à un ou plusieurs débats.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débatteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Blain s'y révèle le penseur par excellence de la laïcité, un débatteur cohérent.
Un problème ? Vite, un débat ! Avec un débatteur pour et un débatteur contre, dont la mission n'est pas d’échanger mais de s’opposer. L’invective est souhaitée, la nuance malvenue.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.