randonneur
\ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“randonneur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,551
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marcheur qui pratique la randonnée, qui fait une randonnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-randonneur · randonneur · French
randonneur · rank #47,551 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,551
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rams
Nearest frequency peer: rams (-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 « randonneur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ramen
ramen
52,453 corpus weight
- rameurs
rameurs
52,452 corpus weight
- rams
rams
52,451 corpus weight
- randonneur
randonneur
52,450 corpus weight
- rappeuse
rappeuse
52,449 corpus weight
- rassurantes
rassurantes
52,448 corpus weight
What this shows « randonneur » 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 | randonneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « randonneur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around randonneur (IPA \ʁɑ̃.dɔ.nœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,551 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marcheur qui pratique la randonnée, qui fait une randonnée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for randonneur, with forms such as "arndonneur", "radnonneur", and "randdonneur". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "randonneurs", "randonnée", "randonnées", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is randonneur, spelled R-A-N-D-O-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Marcheur qui pratique la randonnée, qui fait une randonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how randonneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'été, les troupeaux de vaches d’Abondance regardent tranquillement passer les randonneurs et les vététistes dans les alpages et les sentiers.
Après avoir parcouru avec mes amis randonneurs le trajet d’Hendaye au cirque de Gavarnie, ensemble nous attaquons en cette année 1987 le tronçon des Pyrénées centrales qui doit nous mener vers Bagnères-de-Luchon par la HRP, le massif de la Maladeta et le pic d’Aneto, point culminant des Pyrénées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arndonneur
- radnonneur
- randdonneur
- randnoneur
- randonenur
- randoneur
- randonneru
- randonneurr
- randonnuer
- ranndonneur
- ranodnneur
- rnadonneur
- rrandonneur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of randonneur - 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
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