masturber
\mas.tyʁ.be\
The verdict
“masturber” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #22,329 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #22,329
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Exciter manuellement pour procurer le plaisir sexuel, soumettre à la masturbation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masturber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mas.tyʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masturber” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for masturber is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mas.tyʁ.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,329 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Exciter manuellement pour procurer le plaisir sexuel, soumettre à la masturbation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for masturber, with forms such as "amsturber", "massturber", and "mastruber". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 masturber, spelled M-A-S-T-U-R-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exciter manuellement pour procurer le plaisir sexuel, soumettre à la masturbation.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amsturber,massturber,mastruber,mastturber,mastubrer,masturbber,masturberr,masturbre,masturebr,masturrber,masutrber,matsurber,mmasturber,msaturber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masturber - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “masturber”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-S-T-U-R-B-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mas.tyʁ.be\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.