visiteur
\vi.zi.tœʁ\
The verdict
“visiteur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,940
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui va voir quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-visiteur · visiteur · French
visiteur · rank #9,940 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,940
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH virtuel
Nearest frequency peer: virtuel (-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 « visiteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Vichy
Vichy
90,064 corpus weight
- vilaine
vilaine
90,063 corpus weight
- virtuel
virtuel
90,062 corpus weight
- visiteur
visiteur
90,061 corpus weight
- vitrine
vitrine
90,060 corpus weight
- vivaient
vivaient
90,059 corpus weight
What this shows « visiteur » 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 | visiteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.zi.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « visiteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around visiteur (IPA \vi.zi.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,940 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for visiteur, with forms such as "ivsiteur", "viisteur", and "visietur". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "visitez", "visiteurs", "visite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is visiteur, spelled V-I-S-I-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui va voir quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 2Celui qui est commis, celle qui est commise pour visiter.
- 3Ouvrier qui procède au visitage.
- 4Celui qui, dans les ordres religieux, est chargé d’aller visiter les maisons du même ordre, dans un certain district.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how visiteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'avait pas de chemise quand les visiteurs entrèrent. Il tenait une bible à la main. Il nous reçut poliment, dit l'auteur, et nous exposa avec tristesse, mais avec calme, l’horreur de sa condition.
Un peu de houle agitait le Firecrest sur son ancre, et mes visiteurs furent heureux de regagner la terre ferme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivsiteur
- viisteur
- visietur
- visiteru
- visiteurr
- visitteur
- visituer
- vissiteur
- vistieur
- vsiiteur
- vvisiteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of visiteur - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).