mutateur
\my.ta.tœʁ\
The verdict
“mutateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Convertisseur d’énergie électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutateur · mutateur · French
mutateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | mutateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ta.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mutateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mutateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.ta.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mutateur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 mutateur, spelled M-U-T-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Convertisseur d’énergie électrique.
- 2Méthode permettant de modifier une variable d’instance.
- 3Gène mutateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mutateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par abus de langage, le terme « accesseur » peut aussi être employé pour désigner indifféremment l'une de ces deux méthodes : l'accesseur au sens strict, aussi bien que le mutateur.
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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.