recruteur

/\ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,137

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

recruteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui recrute. Pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\. Often confused with recteur and recruteurs.

Key facts for recruteur
PropertyValue
Headwordrecruteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,137
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of recruteur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for recruteur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,137 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for recruteur, with forms such as "ercruteur", "rceruteur", and "reccruteur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "recteur", "recruteurs", "recruté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is recruteur, spelled R-E-C-R-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui recrute.
  2. 2
    Celui qui recrutait des soldats.
  3. 3
    Celui qui recrute ou qui embauche du personnel.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercruteur,rceruteur,reccruteur,recrruteur,recrtueur,recruetur,recruteru,recruteurr,recrutteur,recrutuer,recurteur,rercuteur,rrecruteur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recruteur

Misspelling Variants of "recruteur"

ercruteur9rceruteur9reccruteur10recrruteur10recrtueur9recruetur9recruteru9recruteurr10
Misspelling Variants of "recruteur"

Frequency rank: #21,137 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recruteur"?
"recruteur" is spelled R-E-C-R-U-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\.
What does "recruteur" mean?
As a noun, "recruteur" means: Personne qui recrute.
What words are commonly confused with "recruteur"?
"recruteur" is commonly confused with "recteur", "recruteurs", "recruté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recruteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recruteur" is \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recruteur" come from?
"recruteur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.