défenseur
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,326
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
défenseur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui défend quelqu’un ou quelque chose qui est attaqué. Pronounced \de.fɑ̃.sœʁ\. It ranks #4,326 in French word frequency. Often confused with dépenser and détenteur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défenseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fɑ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for défenseur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fɑ̃.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,326 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for défenseur, with forms such as "ddéfenseur", "defenseur", and "dféenseur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dépenser", "détenteur", "défenseurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is défenseur, spelled D-É-F-E-N-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui défend quelqu’un ou quelque chose qui est attaqué.
- 2Celui qui est chargé de la défense d’un accusé en justice.
- 3Dans différents sports collectifs, poste arrière dont l’affectation revient à empêcher l’équipe adverse de marquer.
- 4Pièce qui, en contrôlant une case stratégique, tend à dissuader l’adversaire de s’y rendre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfenseur,defenseur,dféenseur,déefnseur,défenesur,défennseur,défenseru,défenseurr,défensseur,défensuer,défesneur,déffenseur,défneseur,édfenseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for défenseur
Misspelling Variants of "défenseur"
Frequency rank: #4,326 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: