fauteur
\fo.tœʁ\
The verdict
“fauteur” is uncommon French (frequency #59,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,285
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui favorise, protège, une personne ou une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fauteur · fauteur · French
fauteur · rank #59,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,285
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faussetés
Nearest frequency peer: faussetés (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fauteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fards
fards
40,719 corpus weight
- fauconnier
fauconnier
40,718 corpus weight
- faussetés
faussetés
40,717 corpus weight
- fauteur
fauteur
40,716 corpus weight
- ferrata
ferrata
40,715 corpus weight
- FFI
FFI
40,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fauteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fauteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fauteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fauteur is uncommon French at frequency #59,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fauteur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fauteur, spelled F-A-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui favorise, protège, une personne ou une chose.
- 2Celui qui favorise, qui appuie un parti, une opinion.
- 3Il se dit le plus souvent avec des mots qui le font prendre en mauvaise part ; complice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fauteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le monstre [un traître], dévoilant ses infâmes desseins, Appelle ses fauteurs, et, volant à leur tête, De notre bataillon vient troubler la retraite.
Gloire au Père, fauteur et gouverneur de tout.
This word in other languages
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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