simulateur
\si.my.la.tœʁ\
The verdict
“simulateur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,682
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui simule, qui feint un sentiment, une attitude, une action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-simulateur · simulateur · French
simulateur · rank #19,682 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,682
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH similitudes
Nearest frequency peer: similitudes (-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 « simulateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sandales
sandales
80,322 corpus weight
- signalée
signalée
80,321 corpus weight
- similitudes
similitudes
80,320 corpus weight
- simulateur
simulateur
80,319 corpus weight
- slovaque
slovaque
80,318 corpus weight
- Socrate
Socrate
80,317 corpus weight
What this shows « simulateur » 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 | simulateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.my.la.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « simulateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around simulateur (IPA \si.my.la.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,682 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for simulateur, with forms such as "ismulateur", "simluateur", and "simmulateur". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "simulateurs", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is simulateur, spelled S-I-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui simule, qui feint un sentiment, une attitude, une action.
- 2Celui qui simule la folie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how simulateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se dit atteint d’amnésie : c’est un simulateur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ismulateur
- simluateur
- simmulateur
- simualteur
- simulaetur
- simulateru
- simulateurr
- simulatteur
- simulatuer
- simullateur
- simultaeur
- siumlateur
- smiulateur
- ssimulateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of simulateur - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "simulateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).