perturbateur
\pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.tœʁ\
The verdict
“perturbateur” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,530
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui cause du trouble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perturbateur · perturbateur · French
perturbateur · rank #36,530 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,530
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH permises
Nearest frequency peer: permises (-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 « perturbateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perfectionn…
perfectionniste
63,475 corpus weight
- permettrai
permettrai
63,473 corpus weight
- permises
permises
63,472 corpus weight
- perturbateur
perturbateur
63,471 corpus weight
- phénoménolo…
phénoménologie
63,470 corpus weight
- pipelines
pipelines
63,469 corpus weight
What this shows « perturbateur » 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 | perturbateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #36,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perturbateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around perturbateur (IPA \pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,530 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui cause du trouble.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for perturbateur, with forms such as "eprturbateur", "perrturbateur", and "pertrubateur". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "perturbateurs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is perturbateur, spelled P-E-R-T-U-R-B-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui cause du trouble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perturbateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perturbateur du repos public.
Il y a eu du désordre dans cette réunion et l’on dut expulser les perturbateurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprturbateur
- perrturbateur
- pertrubateur
- pertturbateur
- pertubrateur
- perturabteur
- perturbaetur
- perturbateru
- perturbateurr
- perturbatteur
- perturbatuer
- perturbbateur
- perturbtaeur
- perturrbateur
- perutrbateur
- petrurbateur
- pperturbateur
- preturbateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perturbateur - 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 "perturbateur", 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).