investigateur
\ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“investigateur” is uncommon French (frequency #68,372 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,372
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait des recherches suivies sur quelque objet, qui examine attentivement et systématiquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-investigateur · investigateur · French
investigateur · rank #68,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,372
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intitulait
Nearest frequency peer: intitulait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « investigateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instaurés
instaurés
31,632 corpus weight
- internation…
internationalistes
31,631 corpus weight
- intitulait
intitulait
31,630 corpus weight
- investigate…
investigateur
31,629 corpus weight
- investira
investira
31,628 corpus weight
- inviterai
inviterai
31,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « investigateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | investigateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #68,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « investigateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
investigateur is uncommon French at frequency #68,372 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui fait des recherches suivies sur quelque objet, qui examine attentivement et systématiquement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for investigateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is investigateur, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui fait des recherches suivies sur quelque objet, qui examine attentivement et systématiquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how investigateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je pus voir alors un homme de taille médiocre, […], et qui, jetant un regard investigateur dans toute l'étendue de la circonférence éclairée par le cierge, parut complètement rassuré par cet examen.
Arrivé sur la lisière de la forêt il s’arrêta, puis après avoir jeté autour de lui un regard investigateur, il imita le hennissement du cheval ….
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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