director
\di.rek.ˈtor\
The verdict
“director” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,213
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Directeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-director · director · French
director · rank #40,213 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,213
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dignitaire
Nearest frequency peer: dignitaire (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « director »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- devos
devos
59,791 corpus weight
- différenciée
différenciée
59,790 corpus weight
- dignitaire
dignitaire
59,789 corpus weight
- director
director
59,788 corpus weight
- dirigez
dirigez
59,787 corpus weight
- disputant
disputant
59,786 corpus weight
What this shows « director » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | director |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.rek.ˈtor\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « director »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around director (IPA \di.rek.ˈtor\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,213 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for director, with forms such as "ddirector", "dierctor", and "dircetor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "directs", "directory", "direct", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 director, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Directeur.
- 2Chef d’orchestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how director appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Artista polifacético, Leonard Bernstein se erige en figura de trascendencia como intérprete y creador: es la primera batuta de origen estadounidense en alcanzar fama internacional; en dos de sus vertientes (pianista y director) lo pudimos apreciar quienes tuvimos la dicha de verlo en su única visita a nuestro país en 1958.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirector
- dierctor
- dircetor
- direcctor
- direcotr
- directorr
- directro
- directtor
- diretcor
- dirrector
- driector
- idrector
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of director - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "director", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).