footballeur

\fut.bo.lœʁ\

/\fut.bo.lœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“footballeur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,836
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sportif qui pratique le football.

Corpus desk

Index FR-footballeur · footballeur · French

footballeur · rank #9,836 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,836
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fondamentales

Nearest frequency peer: fondamentales (-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 « footballeur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « footballeur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

footballeur vs footballeurs
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for footballeur
PropertyValue
Headwordfootballeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fut.bo.lœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#9,836
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « footballeur »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).footballeurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fondamentales » (#9,835), « fouet » (#9,837), « fixés » (#9,834). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « footballeur » est au #9,836. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around footballeur (IPA \fut.bo.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,836 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sportif qui pratique le football.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for footballeur, with forms such as "ffootballeur", "foobtalleur", and "footablleur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "footballeurs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is footballeur, spelled F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sportif qui pratique le football.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how footballeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’artiste compare cette formation à celle que vivrait un footballeur international au centre de Clairefontaine.
  2. D’une façon générale, un footballeur professionnel français gagne largement sa vie, habite un appartement coquet et roule en voiture. Il n’est pas à plaindre et a le temps, en dix ou quinze années d’activité, d’assurer son avenir.

Synonyms

joueur de football

This word in other languages

soccer player(English)futbolista(Español)Fußballer(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffootballeur
  • foobtalleur
  • footablleur
  • footbalelur
  • footbaleur
  • footballeru
  • footballeurr
  • footballuer
  • footbballeur
  • footblaleur
  • foottballeur
  • fotballeur
  • fotoballeur
  • ofotballeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of footballeur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ffootballeur1foobtalleur2footablleur2footbalelur2footbaleur1footballeru2footballeurr1footballuer2
Edit distance from "footballeur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "footballeur"?
"footballeur" is spelled F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fut.bo.lœʁ\.
What does "footballeur" mean?
As a noun, "footballeur" means: Sportif qui pratique le football.
What words are commonly confused with "footballeur"?
"footballeur" is commonly confused with "footballeurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "footballeur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "footballeur" is \fut.bo.lœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "footballeur" come from?
"footballeur" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "footballeur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list