programmateur

\pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\

/\pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“programmateur” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,871. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,871
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 est chargé de la programmation, qui doit répartir dans le temps des programmes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-programmateur · programmateur · French

programmateur · rank #49,871 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #49,871
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH professorat

Nearest frequency peer: professorat (-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 « programmateur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « programmateur » 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).

programmateur vs programmeur
85% similar

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

Key facts for programmateur
PropertyValue
Headwordprogrammateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#49,871
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « programmateur »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).programmateurse 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 « professorat » (#49,870), « promulguer » (#49,872), « produisons » (#49,869). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « programmateur » est au #49,871. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around programmateur (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,871 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui est chargé de la programmation, qui doit répartir dans le temps des programmes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for programmateur, with forms such as "porgrammateur", "pprogrammateur", and "prgorammateur". 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, "programmeur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 programmateur, spelled P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui est chargé de la programmation, qui doit répartir dans le temps des programmes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un programmateur de Radio France.
  2. Le programmateur établit un ensemble de programmes de sa salle ou ses salles pour une durée déterminée, généralement une saison.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porgrammateur
  • pprogrammateur
  • prgorammateur
  • progarmmateur
  • proggrammateur
  • programamteur
  • programateur
  • programmaetur
  • programmateru
  • programmateurr
  • programmatteur
  • programmatuer
  • programmtaeur
  • progrmamateur
  • progrrammateur
  • prorgammateur
  • prrogrammateur
  • rpogrammateur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of programmateur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

porgrammateur2pprogrammateur1prgorammateur2progarmmateur2proggrammateur1programamteur2programateur1programmaetur2
Edit distance from "programmateur"

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 "programmateur"?
"programmateur" is spelled P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\.
What does "programmateur" mean?
As a noun, "programmateur" means: Celui qui est chargé de la programmation, qui doit répartir dans le temps des programmes.
What words are commonly confused with "programmateur"?
"programmateur" is commonly confused with "programmeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "programmateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "programmateur" is \pʁɔ.ɡʁa.ma.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "programmateur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

poliomyélite18 variantsphotogénique18 variantssoutiendront18 variantsspéculatifs18 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list