secteur
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secteur
Misspelling Variants of "secteur"
Frequency rank: #1,045 in French
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