fondateurs
\fɔ̃.da.tœʁ\
The verdict
“fondateurs” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,324
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fondateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondateurs · fondateurs · French
fondateurs · rank #7,324 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,324
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondamental
Nearest frequency peer: fondamental (-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 « fondateurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- filer
filer
92,680 corpus weight
- finira
finira
92,679 corpus weight
- fondamental
fondamental
92,678 corpus weight
- fondateurs
fondateurs
92,677 corpus weight
- fraternité
fraternité
92,676 corpus weight
- fuck
fuck
92,675 corpus weight
What this shows « fondateurs » 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 | fondateurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.da.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fondateurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around fondateurs (IPA \fɔ̃.da.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,324 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fondateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for fondateurs, with forms such as "ffondateurs", "fnodateurs", and "fodnateurs". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fondeurs", "formateurs", "fondateur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fondateurs, spelled F-O-N-D-A-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fondateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fondateurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffondateurs
- fnodateurs
- fodnateurs
- fonadteurs
- fondaeturs
- fondaterus
- fondateurrs
- fondateurss
- fondateusr
- fondatteurs
- fondatuers
- fonddateurs
- fondtaeurs
- fonndateurs
- ofndateurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fondateurs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).