documenter

\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\

/\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\/ verb

The verdict

“documenter” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,547
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appuyer de documents.

Corpus desk

Index FR-documenter · documenter · French

documenter · rank #24,547 · 15 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,547
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH distinctif

Nearest frequency peer: distinctif (-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 « documenter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « documenter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

documenter vs documents
80% similar
documenter vs document
80% similar
documenter vs documente
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for documenter
PropertyValue
Headworddocumenter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#24,547
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « documenter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).documenterse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « distinctif » (#24,546), « dodge » (#24,548), « dissimulation » (#24,545). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « documenter » est au #24,547. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around documenter (IPA \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,547 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Appuyer de documents.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for documenter, with forms such as "dcoumenter", "ddocumenter", and "doccumenter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "documents", "document", "documente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is documenter, spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appuyer de documents.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. C'est souvent en de telles occasions que sont mis en lumière des faits et des événements qui documentent le patrimoine d'une famille ou qui ouvrent des pistes pour des recherches ultérieures.
  2. C’est ainsi que, sur les conseils qu’une mère prévoyante lui avait donnés quand il avait quitté sa province, il ne laissait jamais passer soit une locution ou un nom propre qui lui étaient inconnus sans tâcher de se faire documenter sur eux.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dcoumenter
  • ddocumenter
  • doccumenter
  • docmuenter
  • docuemnter
  • documenetr
  • documennter
  • documenterr
  • documentre
  • documentter
  • documetner
  • docummenter
  • documneter
  • doucmenter
  • odcumenter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of documenter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

dcoumenter2ddocumenter1doccumenter1docmuenter2docuemnter2documenetr2documennter1documenterr1
Edit distance from "documenter"

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 "documenter"?
"documenter" is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\.
What does "documenter" mean?
As a verb, "documenter" means: Appuyer de documents.
What words are commonly confused with "documenter"?
"documenter" is commonly confused with "documents", "document", "documente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "documenter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "documenter" is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "documenter" come from?
"documenter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list