recteurs
\ʁɛk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“recteurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,514
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de recteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recteurs · recteurs · French
recteurs · rank #37,514 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rattachent
Nearest frequency peer: rattachent (-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 « recteurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Randolph
Randolph
62,490 corpus weight
- rapace
rapace
62,489 corpus weight
- rattachent
rattachent
62,488 corpus weight
- recteurs
recteurs
62,487 corpus weight
- reculées
reculées
62,486 corpus weight
- Reddit
Reddit
62,485 corpus weight
What this shows « recteurs » 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 | recteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recteurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around recteurs (IPA \ʁɛk.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,514 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de recteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for recteurs, with forms such as "ercteurs", "rceteurs", and "reccteurs". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "retours", "Reuters", "rêveurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is recteurs, spelled R-E-C-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de recteur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercteurs
- rceteurs
- reccteurs
- receturs
- recterus
- recteurrs
- recteurss
- recteusr
- rectteurs
- rectuers
- retceurs
- rrecteurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recteurs - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recteurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).