facteur
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,457
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
facteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nombre ou variable constitutive d’un produit. Pronounced \fak.tœʁ\. It ranks #3,457 in French word frequency. Often confused with faveur and factor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fak.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for facteur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fak.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,457 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for facteur, with forms such as "afcteur", "faccteur", and "facetur". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "faveur", "factor", "facture", 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 facteur, spelled F-A-C-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre ou variable constitutive d’un produit.
- 2Les éléments qui concourent à un résultat.
- 3Fabricant d’instruments de musique autres que les instruments de la famille du luth et les instruments de la famille du violon (pour lesquels on parle de luthier).
- 4Celui qui fabrique quelque chose.
- 5Agent qui est chargé de distribuer, de remettre à leurs adresses les lettres, objets et valeurs transmis par la poste.
- 6Employé qui, dans une gare de chemin de fer ou dans une entreprise de messagerie, charge, décharge, porte à leur destination les colis.
- 7Celui qui est chargé de la vente en gros à la criée des denrées apportées aux halles.
- 8Celui qui agit pour le compte d’autrui dans un trafic, dans un négoce.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afcteur,faccteur,facetur,facteru,facteurr,factteur,factuer,fatceur,fcateur,ffacteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for facteur
Misspelling Variants of "facteur"
Frequency rank: #3,457 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our French index: