frappeur
\fʁa.pœʁ\
The verdict
“frappeur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,403
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui frappe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappeur · frappeur · French
frappeur · rank #36,403 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,403
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franciscains
Nearest frequency peer: franciscains (-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 « frappeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- foutoir
foutoir
63,601 corpus weight
- franciscains
franciscains
63,599 corpus weight
- frappeur
frappeur
63,598 corpus weight
- frappez
frappez
63,597 corpus weight
- frauder
frauder
63,596 corpus weight
- friands
friands
63,595 corpus weight
What this shows « frappeur » 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 | frappeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁa.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frappeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around frappeur (IPA \fʁa.pœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,403 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for frappeur, with forms such as "farppeur", "ffrappeur", and "frapepur". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "frayeur", "frappez", "fraudeur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is frappeur, spelled F-R-A-P-P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui frappe.
- 2Nom donné autrefois au orfèvres-monnayeurs.
- 3Ouvrier qui dans une forge est employé surtout à battre le métal chaud.
- 4Ouvrier estampeur de cuir ou de papier.
- 5Joueur qui essaie de frapper la balle avec son bâton.
- 6Outil, pièce de machine, qui frappe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frappeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… la mise en usage du balancier à frapper les pièces de monnaie. Avant cette invention, on les frappait au marteau, et celui qui les frappait s'appelait le frappeur.
Le frappeur présente sa pièce sur l'enclume et le forgeron pose la sienne dessus. Celui-ci donne quelques coups de marteau à main pour coller les deux pièces : puis frappeur et forgeron frappent dessus jusqu'à ce que le soudage soit achevé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farppeur
- ffrappeur
- frapepur
- frapeur
- frapperu
- frappeurr
- frappuer
- frpapeur
- frrappeur
- rfappeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frappeur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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