speaker

/\spi.kœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,985

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

speaker is aFrenchnoun. It means: Président de la Chambre des communes ou de la Chambre des représentants anglophone ; aussi, depuis 2006, de la Chambre des Lords britannique. Pronounced \spi.kœʁ\. Often confused with spencer and speak.

Key facts for speaker
PropertyValue
Headwordspeaker
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spi.kœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,985
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for speaker is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spi.kœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,985 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 speaker, with forms such as "pseaker", "sepaker", and "spaeker". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spencer", "speak", "shaker", 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 speaker, spelled S-P-E-A-K-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Président de la Chambre des communes ou de la Chambre des représentants anglophone ; aussi, depuis 2006, de la Chambre des Lords britannique.
  2. 2
    Présentateur de télévision.
  3. 3
    Homme qui donne les informations à la radio.
  4. 4
    Présentateur, orateur, annonceur, porte-parole.
  5. 5
    Celui qui est chargé d’annoncer au public le résultat des épreuves sportives.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pseaker,sepaker,spaeker,speaekr,speakerr,speakker,speakre,spekaer,sppeaker,sspeaker

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for speaker

Misspelling Variants of "speaker"

pseaker7sepaker7spaeker7speaekr7speakerr8speakker8speakre7spekaer7
Misspelling Variants of "speaker"

Frequency rank: #29,985 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "speaker"?
"speaker" is spelled S-P-E-A-K-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \spi.kœʁ\.
What does "speaker" mean?
As a noun, "speaker" means: Président de la Chambre des communes ou de la Chambre des représentants anglophone ; aussi, depuis 2006, de la Chambre des Lords britannique.
What words are commonly confused with "speaker"?
"speaker" is commonly confused with "spencer", "speak", "shaker". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "speaker"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "speaker" is \spi.kœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "speaker" come from?
"speaker" 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.