découvreur
\de.ku.vʁœʁ\
The verdict
“découvreur” is uncommon French (frequency #50,784 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,784
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a découvert une chose en question.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouvreur · découvreur · French
découvreur · rank #50,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,784
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découragent
Nearest frequency peer: découragent (-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 « découvreur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débouler
débouler
49,220 corpus weight
- découragent
découragent
49,218 corpus weight
- découvreur
découvreur
49,217 corpus weight
- défigurée
défigurée
49,216 corpus weight
- dégonfle
dégonfle
49,215 corpus weight
- dégradants
dégradants
49,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « découvreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | découvreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ku.vʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « découvreur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
découvreur is uncommon French at frequency #50,784 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ku.vʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui a découvert une chose en question.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for découvreur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is découvreur, spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a découvert une chose en question.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how découvreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et il est probable, en effet, que le premier découvreur du pôle n’aura atteint ce point qu’à la suite d’une martre ou d’un renard argenté !
A juste titre, on a donné à ce Sund le nom de son découvreur : William Scoresby junior […].
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); 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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