editor

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#47,859

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

editor is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans les pays anglo-saxons, personne responsable du choix et du contenu des publications d’une maison d’édition. Often confused with édits and éviter.

Key facts for editor
PropertyValue
Headwordeditor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#47,859
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of editor in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for editor is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #47,859 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans les pays anglo-saxons, personne responsable du choix et du contenu des publications d’une maison d’édition.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for editor, with forms such as "deitor", "edditor", and "ediotr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "édits", "éviter", "edit", 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 editor, spelled E-D-I-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans les pays anglo-saxons, personne responsable du choix et du contenu des publications d’une maison d’édition.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: deitor,edditor,ediotr,editorr,editro,edittor,edtior,eidtor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for editor

Misspelling Variants of "editor"

deitor6edditor7ediotr6editorr7editro6edittor7edtior6eidtor6
Misspelling Variants of "editor"

Frequency rank: #47,859 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "editor"?
"editor" is spelled E-D-I-T-O-R.
What does "editor" mean?
As a noun, "editor" means: Dans les pays anglo-saxons, personne responsable du choix et du contenu des publications d’une maison d’édition.
What words are commonly confused with "editor"?
"editor" is commonly confused with "édits", "éviter", "edit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "editor" come from?
"editor" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.