observateurs
\ɔb.sɛʁ.va.tœʁ\
The verdict
“observateurs” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,710
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de observateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-observateurs · observateurs · French
observateurs · rank #9,710 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,710
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nôtres
Nearest frequency peer: nôtres (-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 « observateurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- négatives
négatives
90,294 corpus weight
- Nîmes
Nîmes
90,293 corpus weight
- nôtres
nôtres
90,292 corpus weight
- observateurs
observateurs
90,291 corpus weight
- OCDE
OCDE
90,290 corpus weight
- organisent
organisent
90,289 corpus weight
What this shows « observateurs » 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 | observateurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔb.sɛʁ.va.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #9,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « observateurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around observateurs (IPA \ɔb.sɛʁ.va.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,710 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de observateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for observateurs, with forms such as "boservateurs", "obbservateurs", and "obesrvateurs". 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, "observateur", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is observateurs, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de observateur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boservateurs
- obbservateurs
- obesrvateurs
- obseravteurs
- obserrvateurs
- observaeturs
- observaterus
- observateurrs
- observateurss
- observateusr
- observatteurs
- observatuers
- observtaeurs
- observvateurs
- obsevrateurs
- obsrevateurs
- obsservateurs
- osbervateurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of observateurs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "observateurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).