laudateur
\lo.da.tœʁ\
The verdict
“laudateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui loue, qui exprime une louange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laudateur · laudateur · French
laudateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laudateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lo.da.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laudateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laudateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lo.da.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui loue, qui exprime une louange.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for laudateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 laudateur, spelled L-A-U-D-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui loue, qui exprime une louange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laudateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la décentralisation, La Nouvelle Expression estime que le ministre d’État chargé de l’administration territoriale et de la décentralisation a servi un discours laudateur sur le développement endogène des collectivités territoriales.
L’Élysée publie un bilan laudateur des années Sarkozy
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.