raptor
\ʁap.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“raptor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,670
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique rassemblant plusieurs genres de dinosaures théropodes de la famille des droméosauridés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raptor · raptor · French
raptor · rank #35,670 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,670
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapporteurs
Nearest frequency peer: rapporteurs (-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 « raptor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quintessence
quintessence
64,334 corpus weight
- radioactives
radioactives
64,333 corpus weight
- rapporteurs
rapporteurs
64,332 corpus weight
- raptor
raptor
64,331 corpus weight
- raréfaction
raréfaction
64,330 corpus weight
- raspberry
raspberry
64,329 corpus weight
What this shows « raptor » 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 | raptor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁap.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « raptor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around raptor (IPA \ʁap.tɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,670 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom générique rassemblant plusieurs genres de dinosaures théropodes de la famille des droméosauridés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for raptor, with forms such as "arptor", "rapotr", and "rapptor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "rater", "raton", "rotor", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 raptor, spelled R-A-P-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Nom générique rassemblant plusieurs genres de dinosaures théropodes de la famille des droméosauridés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raptor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Changyuraptor yangi ou Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Découvert en Chine, le premier, raptor vivant il y a 125 Ma, était un petit dinosaure à plumes de 1,20 m capable de planer grâce à quatre ailes !
À peine avait-il fini sa phrase que le raptor jaillit du tunnel, les yeux rivés sur le bout de lard […] Le raptor déploya les plumes de sa queue de ses pattes, et bondit dans les airs pour attraper l’appât. En vain : il était trop haut
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arptor
- rapotr
- rapptor
- raptorr
- raptro
- rapttor
- ratpor
- rpator
- rraptor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raptor - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).