employeur
\ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“employeur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,667
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-employeur · employeur · French
employeur · rank #4,667 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,667
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH dépit
Nearest frequency peer: dépit (-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 « employeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doc
doc
95,337 corpus weight
- duquel
duquel
95,336 corpus weight
- dépit
dépit
95,335 corpus weight
- employeur
employeur
95,334 corpus weight
- excès
excès
95,333 corpus weight
- failli
failli
95,332 corpus weight
What this shows « employeur » 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 | employeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « employeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around employeur (IPA \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,667 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for employeur, with forms such as "emlpoyeur", "emmployeur", and "emplloyeur". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "employez", "employeurs", "employé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is employeur, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how employeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le non-paiement des cotisations sociales est constitutif d'infraction pénale dans le chef de l’employeur, ou de ses préposés et mandataires qui ont la responsabilité du paiement des cotisations.
On voit aussi en quoi la notion centrale de co-investissement, présente chez Gary Becker, peut être reconceptualisée à la lumière de ces développements : pour pouvoir exister, le co-investissement employeur-salarié doit être précédé d’un investissement du seul salarié dans des formations plutôt générales et pré-adaptées aux exigences des employeurs c’est-…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlpoyeur
- emmployeur
- emplloyeur
- emploeyur
- employeru
- employeurr
- employuer
- employyeur
- emplyoeur
- empolyeur
- empployeur
- epmloyeur
- meployeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employeur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "employeur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).