découvreur

\de.ku.vʁœʁ\

/\de.ku.vʁœʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « découvreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for découvreur
PropertyValue
Headworddécouvreur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ku.vʁœʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#50,784
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « découvreur » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.découvreurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « découragent » (#50,783), « défigurée » (#50,785), « dégonfle » (#50,786). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « découvreur » est au #50,784. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Celui qui a découvert une chose en question.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how découvreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […], 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 !
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "découvreur"?
"découvreur" is spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ku.vʁœʁ\.
What does "découvreur" mean?
As a noun, "découvreur" means: Celui qui a découvert une chose en question.
How do you pronounce "découvreur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "découvreur" is \de.ku.vʁœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "découvreur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list