webmaster

\wɛb.mas.tœʁ\

/\wɛb.mas.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“webmaster” is uncommon French (frequency #50,585 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,585
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créatrice, créateur ou responsable de site web.

Corpus desk

Index FR-webmaster · webmaster · French

webmaster · rank #50,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,585
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH Werther

Nearest frequency peer: Werther (+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 « webmaster »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « webmaster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for webmaster
PropertyValue
Headwordwebmaster
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wɛb.mas.tœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#50,585
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « webmaster » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).webmastertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Werther » (#50,586), « vénérée » (#50,582), « witt » (#50,588). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « webmaster » est au #50,585. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

webmaster is uncommon French at frequency #50,585 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɛb.mas.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créatrice, créateur ou responsable de site web.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for webmaster, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 webmaster, spelled W-E-B-M-A-S-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Créatrice, créateur ou responsable de site web.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how webmaster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La preuve avec ces trois webmasters. Pendant trois ans pour l’un, cinq ans pour l’autre et sept ans pour le dernier, ils se démènent pour animer un site Internet du groupe Dépêche dédié au rugby (rugby­rama.fr).

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "webmaster"?
"webmaster" is spelled W-E-B-M-A-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \wɛb.mas.tœʁ\.
What does "webmaster" mean?
As a noun, "webmaster" means: Créatrice, créateur ou responsable de site web.
How do you pronounce "webmaster"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "webmaster" is \wɛb.mas.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "webmaster" come from?
"webmaster" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "webmaster", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list