pasteurs
\pas.tœʁ\
The verdict
“pasteurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,642
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pasteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pasteurs · pasteurs · French
pasteurs · rank #22,642 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,642
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passablement
Nearest frequency peer: passablement (-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 « pasteurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Palerme
Palerme
77,362 corpus weight
- paper
paper
77,361 corpus weight
- passablement
passablement
77,360 corpus weight
- pasteurs
pasteurs
77,359 corpus weight
- patins
patins
77,358 corpus weight
- païens
païens
77,357 corpus weight
What this shows « pasteurs » 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 | pasteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pasteurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pasteurs (IPA \pas.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,642 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pasteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pasteurs, with forms such as "apsteurs", "paseturs", and "passteurs". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "posters", "payeurs", "porteurs", and more, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pasteurs, spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pasteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pasteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui résulte de tous ces renseignements, c’est que les Bagas étaient déjà, à l’époque de René Caillié (1828), à la fois chasseurs, pêcheurs, pratiqueurs de cueillette et arboriculteurs, pasteurs et cultivateurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apsteurs
- paseturs
- passteurs
- pasterus
- pasteurrs
- pasteurss
- pasteusr
- pastteurs
- pastuers
- patseurs
- ppasteurs
- psateurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pasteurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "pasteurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).