informaticien
\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.ti.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“informaticien” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,169
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professionnel travaillant à l’étude des ordinateurs ou logiciels et notamment de leurs systèmes d’exploitation, des systèmes de communication entre ordinateurs, des appareils fixes ou mobiles utili...
Corpus desk
Index FR-informaticien · informaticien · French
informaticien · rank #20,169 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,169
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infernale
Nearest frequency peer: infernale (-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 « informaticien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inceste
inceste
79,835 corpus weight
- infernale
infernale
79,833 corpus weight
- informatici…
informaticien
79,832 corpus weight
- innovants
innovants
79,831 corpus weight
- insoutenable
insoutenable
79,830 corpus weight
- insuffisant…
insuffisantes
79,829 corpus weight
What this shows « informaticien » 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 | informaticien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.ti.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #20,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « informaticien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around informaticien (IPA \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.ti.sjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,169 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Professionnel travaillant à l’étude des ordinateurs ou logiciels et notamment de leurs systèmes d’exploitation, des systèmes de communication entre ordinateurs, des appareils fixes ou mobiles utili...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for informaticien, with forms such as "ifnormaticien", "infformaticien", and "infomraticien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "informaticiens", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is informaticien, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Professionnel travaillant à l’étude des ordinateurs ou logiciels et notamment de leurs systèmes d’exploitation, des systèmes de communication entre ordinateurs, des appareils fixes ou mobiles utilisant des programmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how informaticien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’informaticien, face à un problème réel à résoudre par des méthodes informatiques, doit d’abord concevoir un modèle informatique de la réalité en question.
Ces divers travaux mettant en rapport des linguistes, des phonéticiens et des informaticiens a permis la synthétisation de la parole qui conduit des machines à « dialoguer » entre elles sans intervention humaine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnormaticien
- infformaticien
- infomraticien
- inforamticien
- informaitcien
- informatciien
- informaticcien
- informaticein
- informaticienn
- informaticine
- informatiicen
- informatticien
- informmaticien
- informtaicien
- inforrmaticien
- infromaticien
- innformaticien
- inofrmaticien
- niformaticien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of informaticien - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).