receveur
\ʁə.sə.vœʁ\
The verdict
“receveur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,037
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a charge de faire une recette, soit en argent, soit en nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-receveur · receveur · French
receveur · rank #12,037 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recevant
Nearest frequency peer: recevant (-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 « receveur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rabais
rabais
87,967 corpus weight
- rassuré
rassuré
87,966 corpus weight
- recevant
recevant
87,965 corpus weight
- receveur
receveur
87,964 corpus weight
- recrue
recrue
87,962 corpus weight
- regroupant
regroupant
87,961 corpus weight
What this shows « receveur » 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 | receveur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.sə.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « receveur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around receveur (IPA \ʁə.sə.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,037 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for receveur, with forms such as "erceveur", "rceeveur", and "recceveur". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "rêveur", "relever", "recevez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is receveur, spelled R-E-C-E-V-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a charge de faire une recette, soit en argent, soit en nature.
- 2Joueur qui attrape la balle lancée par le lanceur.
- 3Personne qui reçoit un organe transplanté ou une transfusion, par opposition au donneur.
- 4Partie inférieure d’une douche, qui recueille et évacue l’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how receveur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me nomma même trésorier des tributs que l'Arabie Pétrée payait au roi des rois. Je fis ma charge de receveur et point du tout celle de payeur.
Une ordonnance de Charles IV, dit le Bel, de novembre 1323, concernant le Trésor, prescrit qu’aucun clerc ou receveur ne soit employé au Trésor s'il n'est pas Français.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erceveur
- rceeveur
- recceveur
- receevur
- receveru
- receveurr
- recevuer
- recevveur
- recveeur
- reecveur
- rreceveur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of receveur - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).