frustrer
\fʁys.tʁe\
The verdict
“frustrer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,061
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priver quelqu’un de ce qui lui est dû, de ce qui doit lui revenir, ou à quoi il s’attend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frustrer · frustrer · French
frustrer · rank #45,061 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,061
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fructueuses
Nearest frequency peer: fructueuses (-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 « frustrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fromager
fromager
54,943 corpus weight
- frousse
frousse
54,942 corpus weight
- fructueuses
fructueuses
54,941 corpus weight
- frustrer
frustrer
54,940 corpus weight
- fréquentaie…
fréquentaient
54,939 corpus weight
- FTTH
FTTH
54,938 corpus weight
What this shows « frustrer » 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 | frustrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁys.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frustrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around frustrer (IPA \fʁys.tʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,061 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for frustrer, with forms such as "ffrustrer", "frrustrer", and "frsutrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "frustrés", "frustre", "frustrée", 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 frustrer, spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Priver quelqu’un de ce qui lui est dû, de ce qui doit lui revenir, ou à quoi il s’attend.
- 2Décevoir l’attente, l’espoir, l’espérance de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frustrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et même, comme si elle eût senti qu’elle frustrait le vieux d’une tendresse à laquelle il avait droit, elle cherchait à compenser la chose en l’entourant plus que jamais de soins et de prévenances.
Il m’a frustré de mes droits. — Il a frustré ses créanciers. — Être frustré dans ses espérances.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffrustrer
- frrustrer
- frsutrer
- frusrter
- frusstrer
- frusterr
- frustrerr
- frustrrer
- frusttrer
- frutsrer
- furstrer
- rfustrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frustrer - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).