secteur

/\sɛk.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,045

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

secteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie d’un disque qui est comprise entre deux rayons quelconques. Pronounced \sɛk.tœʁ\. It ranks #1,045 in French word frequency. Often confused with suceur and serveur.

Key facts for secteur
PropertyValue
Headwordsecteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛk.tœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,045
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for secteur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for secteur, with forms such as "escteur", "sceteur", and "seccteur". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "suceur", "serveur", "senteur", 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 secteur, spelled S-E-C-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
    Partie d’un disque qui est comprise entre deux rayons quelconques.
  2. 2
    Instrument d’astronomie, qui a moins d’étendue que le quart de cercle.
  3. 3
    Portion d’une enceinte fortifiée, d’un front de combat, placée sous les ordres d’un commandant particulier, ordinairement d’un commandant de division.
  4. 4
    Circonscription administrative.
  5. 5
    Subdivision de réseau de distribution électrique.
  6. 6
    Le courant électrique, en environnement domestique.
  7. 7
    Subdivision de l’économie en fonction de l’activité des entreprises qui appartiennent à une même catégorie.
  8. 8
    Subdivision phytogéographique.
  9. 9
    Plus petite unité de stockage sur un support de donnée.
  10. 10
    Appareil servant à régler le mouvement des broches sur les métiers à tisser à renvider.
  11. 11
    Guide 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secteur

Misspelling Variants of "secteur"

escteur7sceteur7seccteur8secetur7secteru7secteurr8sectteur8sectuer7
Misspelling Variants of "secteur"

Frequency rank: #1,045 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secteur"?
"secteur" is spelled S-E-C-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛk.tœʁ\.
What does "secteur" mean?
As a noun, "secteur" means: Partie d’un disque qui est comprise entre deux rayons quelconques.
What words are commonly confused with "secteur"?
"secteur" is commonly confused with "suceur", "serveur", "senteur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "secteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "secteur" is \sɛk.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "secteur" come from?
"secteur" 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.