employeur

/\ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,667

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

employeur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés. Pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\. It ranks #4,667 in French word frequency. Often confused with employez and employeurs.

Key facts for employeur
PropertyValue
Headwordemployeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,667
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for employeur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,667 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for employeur, with forms such as "emlpoyeur", "emmployeur", and "emplloyeur". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "employez", "employeurs", "employé", 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 employeur, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emlpoyeur,emmployeur,emplloyeur,emploeyur,employeru,employeurr,employuer,employyeur,emplyoeur,empolyeur,empployeur,epmloyeur,meployeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for employeur

Misspelling Variants of "employeur"

emlpoyeur9emmployeur10emplloyeur10emploeyur9employeru9employeurr10employuer9employyeur10
Misspelling Variants of "employeur"

Frequency rank: #4,667 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "employeur"?
"employeur" is spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\.
What does "employeur" mean?
As a noun, "employeur" means: Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés.
What words are commonly confused with "employeur"?
"employeur" is commonly confused with "employez", "employeurs", "employé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "employeur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "employeur" is \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "employeur" come from?
"employeur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.