machinateur
\ma.ʃi.na.tœʁ\
The verdict
“machinateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui fait quelque machination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machinateur · machinateur · French
machinateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | machinateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃi.na.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « machinateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
machinateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʃi.na.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui fait quelque machination.".
No misspelling variants are generated for machinateur in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is machinateur, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fait quelque machination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how machinateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle fut la machinatrice du complot.
L’intrus est un semeur de pistes, un machinateur de conséquences suffisamment sagace, y compris pour anticiper ces réflexions qui sont miennes.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.