secteur
\sɛk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“secteur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,045 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,045
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie d’un disque qui est comprise entre deux rayons quelconques.
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 | secteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “secteur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for secteur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛk.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,045 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for secteur, with forms such as "escteur", "sceteur", and "seccteur". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "suceur", "serveur", "senteur", 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 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 secteur, spelled S-E-C-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un disque qui est comprise entre deux rayons quelconques.
- 2Instrument d’astronomie, qui a moins d’étendue que le quart de cercle.
- 3Portion d’une enceinte fortifiée, d’un front de combat, placée sous les ordres d’un commandant particulier, ordinairement d’un commandant de division.
- 4Circonscription administrative.
- 5Subdivision de réseau de distribution électrique.
- 6Le courant électrique, en environnement domestique.
- 7Subdivision de l’économie en fonction de l’activité des entreprises qui appartiennent à une même catégorie.
- 8Subdivision phytogéographique.
- 9Plus petite unité de stockage sur un support de donnée.
- 10Appareil servant à régler le mouvement des broches sur les métiers à tisser à renvider.
- 11Guide d'un levier, d'une manette de commande.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: escteur,sceteur,seccteur,secetur,secteru,secteurr,sectteur,sectuer,setceur,ssecteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secteur - 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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Using “secteur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-C-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛk.tœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “suceur” - see the side-by-side comparison. secteur vs suceur
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.