navigateur
\na.vi.ɡa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“navigateur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,355
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a fait sur mer des voyages de long cours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navigateur · navigateur · French
navigateur · rank #9,355 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,355
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH musicales
Nearest frequency peer: musicales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « navigateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moreau
moreau
90,649 corpus weight
- multiplier
multiplier
90,648 corpus weight
- musicales
musicales
90,647 corpus weight
- navigateur
navigateur
90,646 corpus weight
- négligeable
négligeable
90,645 corpus weight
- paient
paient
90,643 corpus weight
What this shows « navigateur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navigateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.vi.ɡa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « navigateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around navigateur (IPA \na.vi.ɡa.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,355 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for navigateur, with forms such as "anvigateur", "naivgateur", and "navgiateur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "navigateurs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is navigateur, spelled N-A-V-I-G-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a fait sur mer des voyages de long cours.
- 2Marin, homme apte à conduire un vaisseau.
- 3Celui qui est chargé de la conduite d’un avion, d’un aérostat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how navigateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, les Bellilois, à l’encontre des autres insulaires morbihannais, sont moins des pêcheurs que des navigateurs.
Marcher au grand air frais fut pour lui une sensation délicieuse, comme la promenade à terre pour le navigateur qui longtemps a été à la mer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anvigateur
- naivgateur
- navgiateur
- naviagteur
- navigaetur
- navigateru
- navigateurr
- navigatteur
- navigatuer
- naviggateur
- navigtaeur
- navvigateur
- nnavigateur
- nvaigateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navigateur - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "navigateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).