froideur

/\fʁwa.dœʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,782

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

froideur is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de ce qui manque de chaleur. Pronounced \fʁwa.dœʁ\. Often confused with frondeur and frondeurs.

Key facts for froideur
PropertyValue
Headwordfroideur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁwa.dœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,782
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of froideur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for froideur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁwa.dœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,782 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for froideur, with forms such as "ffroideur", "forideur", and "friodeur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "frondeur", "frondeurs", "froide", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is froideur, spelled F-R-O-I-D-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui manque de chaleur.
  2. 2
    Froid accueil, indifférence, et dans ce sens, il peut s’employer au pluriel.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffroideur,forideur,friodeur,frodieur,froiddeur,froideru,froideurr,froiduer,froiedur,frroideur,rfoideur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for froideur

Misspelling Variants of "froideur"

ffroideur9forideur8friodeur8frodieur8froiddeur9froideru8froideurr9froiduer8
Misspelling Variants of "froideur"

Frequency rank: #29,782 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "froideur"?
"froideur" is spelled F-R-O-I-D-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁwa.dœʁ\.
What does "froideur" mean?
As a noun, "froideur" means: État de ce qui manque de chaleur.
What words are commonly confused with "froideur"?
"froideur" is commonly confused with "frondeur", "frondeurs", "froide". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "froideur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "froideur" is \fʁwa.dœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "froideur" come from?
"froideur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.