squatter
\skwa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“squatter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,987
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui squatte, qui occupe de façon illégale un bâtiment, un terrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-squatter · squatter · French
squatter · rank #29,987 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spores
Nearest frequency peer: spores (-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 « squatter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soufflant
soufflant
70,017 corpus weight
- speaker
speaker
70,016 corpus weight
- spores
spores
70,015 corpus weight
- squatter
squatter
70,014 corpus weight
- stationner
stationner
70,013 corpus weight
- stationné
stationné
70,012 corpus weight
What this shows « squatter » 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 | squatter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skwa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « squatter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around squatter (IPA \skwa.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,987 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for squatter, with forms such as "qsuatter", "sqautter", and "sqquatter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Sutter", "squatte", 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 squatter, spelled S-Q-U-A-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui squatte, qui occupe de façon illégale un bâtiment, un terrain.
- 2Colon étasunien qui occupait illégalement une région de l'ouest des États-Unis.
- 3Personne sans domicile qui occupe, sans titre, une maison ou un appartement inoccupé.
- 4Personne qui occupe longtemps un lieu où elle n’est pas désirée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how squatter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le squatter, y dit sir George Simpson, gouverneur des territoires de la baie d’Hudson, est celui qui s’établit sur un terrain sans titres de propriété. » (Edouar de Hailly, Les Américains sur le Pacifique, in "La Revue des deux mondes", 1859)
Les squatters, ces gens sans feu ni lieu, sans droit ni loi, reniés par toutes les nations, et qui sont la honte et le rebut de la population nord-américaine, s’avancent incessamment vers l’ouest, et de défrichements en défrichements, tentent de relancer les tribus indiennes de leurs derniers refuges.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qsuatter
- sqautter
- sqquatter
- squater
- squatetr
- squatterr
- squattre
- squtater
- ssquatter
- suqatter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of squatter - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).