dominateur
\dɔ.mi.na.tœʁ\
The verdict
“dominateur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,987
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui domine, qui s’arroge une grande autorité, qui exerce un grand empire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dominateur · dominateur · French
dominateur · rank #34,987 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,987
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dojo
Nearest frequency peer: dojo (-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 « dominateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disproporti…
disproportionné
65,017 corpus weight
- doge
doge
65,016 corpus weight
- dojo
dojo
65,015 corpus weight
- dominateur
dominateur
65,014 corpus weight
- dominicale
dominicale
65,013 corpus weight
- draper
draper
65,012 corpus weight
What this shows « dominateur » 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 | dominateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.na.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dominateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dominateur (IPA \dɔ.mi.na.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,987 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui domine, qui s’arroge une grande autorité, qui exerce un grand empire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dominateur, with forms such as "ddominateur", "dmoinateur", and "doimnateur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "donateur", "dénominateur", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dominateur, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui domine, qui s’arroge une grande autorité, qui exerce un grand empire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dominateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déchues de leur rôle de dominatrices, les Fougères se sont réfugiées à l'ombre des grands Phanérogames; elles vivent sous bois et n'y brillent pas.
Alexandre le Grand devint le dominateur de l’Asie. — Cette nation fut longtemps la dominatrice des mers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddominateur
- dmoinateur
- doimnateur
- domianteur
- dominaetur
- dominateru
- dominateurr
- dominatteur
- dominatuer
- dominnateur
- domintaeur
- domminateur
- domniateur
- odminateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dominateur - 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.
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
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