photographe

\fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\

/\fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\/ noun

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The verdict

“photographe” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,266
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui prend des photographies.

Corpus desk

Index FR-photographe · photographe · French

photographe · rank #4,266 · 17 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,266
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH passera

Nearest frequency peer: passera (-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 « photographe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « photographe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

photographe vs photography
91% similar
photographe vs photographie
92% similar
photographe vs photographes
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for photographe
PropertyValue
Headwordphotographe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,266
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « photographe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.photographese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « passera » (#4,265), « plaindre » (#4,267), « passagers » (#4,264). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « photographe » est au #4,266. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around photographe (IPA \fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,266 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for photographe, with forms such as "hpotographe", "phhotographe", and "phootgraphe". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "photography", "photographie", "photographes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is photographe, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui prend des photographies.
  2. 2
    Personne qui s’occupe professionnellement de photographie, qui en fait son métier.
  3. 3
    Nom donné à l’assistant-bourreau qui tient la tête du condamné dans la lunette de la guillotine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how photographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On retrouve chez Abramow un héritage lisible de Guy Bourdin (1928-1991), immense photographe des années 1970, dont les cadrages acrobatiques, et les couleurs éclatantes, rendaient les mannequins à la fois ultrasexys et parfaitement puissantes.
  2. Il n’est plus permis aujourd’hui à un photographe quelque peu averti, d’ignorer la sensitométrie. Les méthodes de mesures créées par Hürter et Driffield, perfectionnées par un grand nombre de savants, ont acquis une importance considérable en photographie.

Synonyms

photographieurphotoseur

This word in other languages

photographer(English)fotógrafo(Español)Fotograf(Deutsch)fotógrafo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hpotographe
  • phhotographe
  • phootgraphe
  • photgoraphe
  • photogarphe
  • photoggraphe
  • photograhpe
  • photograpeh
  • photographhe
  • photograpphe
  • photogrpahe
  • photogrraphe
  • photorgaphe
  • phottographe
  • phtoographe
  • pohtographe
  • pphotographe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photographe - 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.

hpotographe2phhotographe1phootgraphe2photgoraphe2photogarphe2photoggraphe1photograhpe2photograpeh2
Edit distance from "photographe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "photographe"?
"photographe" is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\.
What does "photographe" mean?
As a noun, "photographe" means: Personne qui prend des photographies.
What words are commonly confused with "photographe"?
"photographe" is commonly confused with "photography", "photographie", "photographes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "photographe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "photographe" is \fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁaf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "photographe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "photographe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

professeurs#4,270opportunité#4,260raisonnable#4,273remarquable#4,276

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

financières17 variantsdistinction17 variantscorrectement17 variantspossibilités17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list