illustrateur
\i.lys.tʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“illustrateur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,475. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,475
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui illustre, qui dessine, qui compose des illustrations pour les livres, les journaux, les revues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illustrateur · illustrateur · French
illustrateur · rank #27,475 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,475
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ignores
Nearest frequency peer: ignores (-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 « illustrateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hygiénique
hygiénique
72,529 corpus weight
- héroïnes
héroïnes
72,528 corpus weight
- ignores
ignores
72,527 corpus weight
- illustrateur
illustrateur
72,526 corpus weight
- immiscer
immiscer
72,525 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionnée
72,524 corpus weight
What this shows « illustrateur » 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 | illustrateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.lys.tʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #27,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illustrateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around illustrateur (IPA \i.lys.tʁa.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,475 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui illustre, qui dessine, qui compose des illustrations pour les livres, les journaux, les revues.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for illustrateur, with forms such as "illsutrateur", "illusrtateur", and "illusstrateur". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "illustrateurs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is illustrateur, spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui illustre, qui dessine, qui compose des illustrations pour les livres, les journaux, les revues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illustrateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le hasard me fit rencontrer un illustrateur de talent il sut mettre des images sur mes pensées.
Elle sera accompagnée de son coauteur, l’illustrateur François Ravard.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illsutrateur
- illusrtateur
- illusstrateur
- illustarteur
- illustraetur
- illustrateru
- illustrateurr
- illustratteur
- illustratuer
- illustrrateur
- illustrtaeur
- illusttrateur
- illutsrateur
- ilulstrateur
- ilustrateur
- lilustrateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illustrateur - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "illustrateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).