accordeur
\a.kɔʁ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“accordeur” is uncommon French (frequency #83,548 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,548
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait métier d’accorder certains instruments de musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accordeur · accordeur · French
accordeur · rank #83,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,548
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accompagnais
Nearest frequency peer: accompagnais (-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 « accordeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abrégés
abrégés
16,456 corpus weight
- abstraire
abstraire
16,455 corpus weight
- accompagnais
accompagnais
16,454 corpus weight
- accordeur
accordeur
16,453 corpus weight
- accordèrent
accordèrent
16,452 corpus weight
- accordéons
accordéons
16,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accordeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accordeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɔʁ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accordeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accordeur is uncommon French at frequency #83,548 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɔʁ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accordeur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is accordeur, spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait métier d’accorder certains instruments de musique.
- 2Outil qui permet d’accorder un instrument de musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accordeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Accordeur d’orgues, de pianos.
Un accordeur qui accorde quatre pianos par jour, cinq jours par semaine, cinquante semaines par année s’occupe d'environ 1000 pianos en un an.
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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