accoucheur
\a.ku.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“accoucheur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,294 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,294
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont la profession est de faire des accouchements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accoucheur · accoucheur · French
accoucheur · rank #87,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,294
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accounting
Nearest frequency peer: accounting (+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 « accoucheur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aage
aage
12,710 corpus weight
- abon
abon
12,709 corpus weight
- accoucheur
accoucheur
12,707 corpus weight
- accounting
accounting
12,706 corpus weight
- accumulait
accumulait
12,705 corpus weight
- accéléromèt…
accéléromètre
12,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accoucheur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accoucheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ku.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accoucheur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accoucheur is uncommon French at frequency #87,294 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ku.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui dont la profession est de faire des accouchements.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accoucheur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accoucheur, spelled A-C-C-O-U-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont la profession est de faire des accouchements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accoucheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se souvint d’une « médicale » télévisée où l’on montrait des nourrissons soumis ainsi aux investigations manuelles d’un accoucheur.
C’est sur-tout depuis quelque temps que j’ai été constamment appellé auprès des femmes mutilées par des accoucheurs et des matrônes mal-habiles que le nombre de ces victimes s’accroît tous les jours ; […]
Synonyms
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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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