sculpteur
\skyl.tœʁ\
The verdict
“sculpteur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,060
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artiste qui sculpte la matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sculpteur · sculpteur · French
sculpteur · rank #13,060 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,060
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saveurs
Nearest frequency peer: saveurs (-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 « sculpteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résolument
résolument
86,944 corpus weight
- saveurs
saveurs
86,942 corpus weight
- sculpteur
sculpteur
86,941 corpus weight
- serein
serein
86,940 corpus weight
- servis
servis
86,939 corpus weight
- shop
shop
86,938 corpus weight
What this shows « sculpteur » 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 | sculpteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skyl.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sculpteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sculpteur (IPA \skyl.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,060 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sculpteur, with forms such as "csulpteur", "scculpteur", and "sclupteur". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sculpture", "sculpteurs", "sculpte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sculpteur, spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Artiste qui sculpte la matière.
- 2Métier de celui qui sculpte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sculpteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« — Un sculpteur ? Ils sont généralement un peu brutes, les sculpteurs. — Oh ! celui-là sculpte si peu ! Mais, si vous êtes contrarié que je le reçoive, je ne le recevrai pas.
Et jamais, en somme, l’on n’a découvert le nom de l’un des premiers architectes, de l’un des sculpteurs, de l’un des verriers de cette cathédrale ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csulpteur
- scculpteur
- sclupteur
- scullpteur
- sculpetur
- sculppteur
- sculpteru
- sculpteurr
- sculptteur
- scultpeur
- scuplteur
- ssculpteur
- suclpteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sculpteur - 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 "sculpteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).