locateur
\lɔ.ka.tœʁ\
The verdict
“locateur” is uncommon French (frequency #63,890 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,890
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui donne à bail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-locateur · locateur · French
locateur · rank #63,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lobos
Nearest frequency peer: lobos (-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 « locateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- limbo
limbo
36,114 corpus weight
- lingala
lingala
36,113 corpus weight
- lobos
lobos
36,112 corpus weight
- locateur
locateur
36,111 corpus weight
- londre
londre
36,110 corpus weight
- Ltée
Ltée
36,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « locateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « locateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
locateur is uncommon French at frequency #63,890 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ka.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui donne à bail.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for locateur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is locateur, spelled L-O-C-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui donne à bail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how locateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S'il s'agit d'une location pour une durée déterminée et qu'il reste moins de douze mois à courir à la location, le nouveau locateur ne peut mettre fin au bail et le locataire ne perdra aucun droit.
Les autres feront, à l’armée, des remplaçants pour le fils du locateur !
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).