venator
\və.na.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“venator” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gladiateur qui combat des animaux sauvages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venator · venator · French
venator · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.na.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
venator is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \və.na.tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gladiateur qui combat des animaux sauvages.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for venator, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is venator, spelled V-E-N-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Gladiateur qui combat des animaux sauvages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how venator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les spectacles avec mise à mort, les jeux romains sont passés à la postérité, en partie grâce à la conservation de l'architecture monumentale des amphithéâtres. Il y avait spectacle le matin et l'après-midi : le soir, les gladiateurs s'affrontaient, tandis que les venationes matinales opposaient des fauves entre eux ou au venator combattant pourvu d…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.