fossoyeur
\fɔ.swa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“fossoyeur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,846
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui creuse les fosses pour enterrer les morts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fossoyeur · fossoyeur · French
fossoyeur · rank #36,846 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flâner
Nearest frequency peer: flâner (-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 « fossoyeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiel
fiel
63,158 corpus weight
- figue
figue
63,157 corpus weight
- flâner
flâner
63,156 corpus weight
- fossoyeur
fossoyeur
63,155 corpus weight
- fougère
fougère
63,154 corpus weight
- fouillée
fouillée
63,153 corpus weight
What this shows « fossoyeur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fossoyeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.swa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fossoyeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fossoyeur (IPA \fɔ.swa.jœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,846 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fossoyeur, with forms such as "ffossoyeur", "fososyeur", and "fosoyeur". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fossoyeur, spelled F-O-S-S-O-Y-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui creuse les fosses pour enterrer les morts.
- 2Celui qui met fin à un monde déjà en déliquescence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fossoyeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, à six heures du matin, les fossoyeurs me retrouvèrent aussi froid que la dalle sur laquelle j’étais couché.
Dans l’excavation, […], on descendit les misérables bières de sapin, on les rangea l’une près de l’autre puis, […], les fossoyeurs saisirent leurs pelles et comblèrent la tranchée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffossoyeur
- fososyeur
- fosoyeur
- fossoeyur
- fossoyeru
- fossoyeurr
- fossoyuer
- fossoyyeur
- fossyoeur
- fsosoyeur
- ofssoyeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fossoyeur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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