tatoueur
\ta.tu.œʁ\
The verdict
“tatoueur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,648
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui dessine des tatouages sur la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatoueur · tatoueur · French
tatoueur · rank #42,648 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,648
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH TCL
Nearest frequency peer: TCL (+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 « tatoueur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tassement
tassement
57,355 corpus weight
- tatoueur
tatoueur
57,353 corpus weight
- TCL
TCL
57,352 corpus weight
- TCP
TCP
57,351 corpus weight
- terreurs
terreurs
57,350 corpus weight
- testeur
testeur
57,349 corpus weight
What this shows « tatoueur » 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 | tatoueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.tu.œʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tatoueur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tatoueur (IPA \ta.tu.œʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,648 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui dessine des tatouages sur la peau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tatoueur, with forms such as "attoueur", "taotueur", and "tatoeuur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tatouer", "tatouée", "tatoués", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tatoueur, spelled T-A-T-O-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui dessine des tatouages sur la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tatoueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vieux Dimitraki exerçait l’invraisemblable métier de tatoueur pour marins grecs.
Un grande partie des vieux indigènes était tatouée. Cela ne me surprenait pas, car Fata-Hiva avait toujours été célèbre pour ses tatoueurs et ses sculpteurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- attoueur
- taotueur
- tatoeuur
- tatoueru
- tatoueurr
- tatouuer
- tattoueur
- tatuoeur
- ttaoueur
- ttatoueur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tatoueur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).