prêcheur
\pʁɛ.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“prêcheur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,982
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Prédicateur ; celui qui prêche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-precheur · prêcheur · French
prêcheur · rank #41,982 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,982
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévôté
Nearest frequency peer: prévôté (-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 « prêcheur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préservées
préservées
58,022 corpus weight
- prévalent
prévalent
58,021 corpus weight
- prévôté
prévôté
58,020 corpus weight
- prêcheur
prêcheur
58,019 corpus weight
- published
published
58,017 corpus weight
- pucerons
pucerons
58,016 corpus weight
What this shows « prêcheur » 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 | prêcheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prêcheur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prêcheur (IPA \pʁɛ.ʃœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,982 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prêcheur, with forms such as "pprêcheur", "prcêheur", and "precheur". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "preneur", "prêteur", "précieux", and more, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prêcheur, spelled P-R-Ê-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1ou Prédicateur ; celui qui prêche.
- 2Celui qui fait la leçon aux autres.
- 3Celui qui se mêle de faire toujours des réprimandes, des remontrances sur les moindres choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prêcheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les terribles prêcheurs de Seize, les moines qui portaient le mousquet aux processions de la Ligue, s'humanisent tout à coup ; les voilà devenus bénins. C'est qu'il faut bien essayer d’endormir ceux qu'on n'a pas pu tuer.
Frères prêcheurs, Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Dominique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprêcheur
- prcêheur
- precheur
- prrêcheur
- prêccheur
- prêcehur
- prêcheru
- prêcheurr
- prêchheur
- prêchuer
- prêhceur
- pêrcheur
- rpêcheur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prêcheur - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).