graffeur
\ɡʁa.fœʁ\
The verdict
“graffeur” is uncommon French (frequency #72,376 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,376
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui, seul ou en groupe, réalise des graffitis sur les murs, les trottoirs ou le mobilier urbain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graffeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “graffeur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
graffeur is uncommon French at frequency #72,376 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.fœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui, seul ou en groupe, réalise des graffitis sur les murs, les trottoirs ou le mobilier urbain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for graffeur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is graffeur, spelled G-R-A-F-F-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, seul ou en groupe, réalise des graffitis sur les murs, les trottoirs ou le mobilier urbain.
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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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Using “graffeur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-F-F-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.