squatteur
\skwa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“squatteur” is uncommon French (frequency #92,213 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,213
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
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-squatteur · squatteur · French
squatteur · rank #92,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,213
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH staffs
Nearest frequency peer: staffs (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « squatteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souciaient
souciaient
7,792 corpus weight
- soustraite
soustraite
7,791 corpus weight
- squatteur
squatteur
7,788 corpus weight
- staffs
staffs
7,787 corpus weight
- stairway
stairway
7,786 corpus weight
- stalk
stalk
7,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « squatteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squatteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skwa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « squatteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
squatteur is uncommon French at frequency #92,213 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skwa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
squatteur has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is squatteur, spelled S-Q-U-A-T-T-E-U-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 qui occupe longtemps un lieu où elle n’est pas désirée, parasite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how squatteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et de citer une réaction sincère à la question du nom : « Zadiste ? C'est quoi, cette étiquette de connard qu'on s'colle sur la tête ? Je vis ici, je suis squatteur, mais je veux plus qu'on m'appelle zadiste. » Être désigné, c'est en effet subir une forme de pouvoir.
"On va barricader bien comme il faut", réagit immédiatement Elise Aubry, une squatteuse de 27 ans.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).