agrafeuse
\a.ɡʁa.føz\
The verdict
“agrafeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #78,109 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,109
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil permettant de fixer ensemble, à l’aide d’une agrafe, des objets de faible épaisseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agrafeuse · agrafeuse · French
agrafeuse · rank #78,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,109
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajusteur
Nearest frequency peer: ajusteur (+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 « agrafeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adjointes
adjointes
21,899 corpus weight
- afficha
afficha
21,894 corpus weight
- agrafeuse
agrafeuse
21,892 corpus weight
- ajusteur
ajusteur
21,891 corpus weight
- Albanel
Albanel
21,890 corpus weight
- amaigri
amaigri
21,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agrafeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agrafeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁa.føz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agrafeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agrafeuse is uncommon French at frequency #78,109 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡʁa.føz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
agrafeuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 agrafeuse, spelled A-G-R-A-F-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Outil permettant de fixer ensemble, à l’aide d’une agrafe, des objets de faible épaisseur.
- 2Ouvrière qui agrafe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agrafeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, rangeant mon agrafeuse, mes chemises et mon Journal officiel, je me prends à réfléchir à la démesure du monde.
Il y a parfois des cadences effrayantes ; ainsi, dans une enquête faite dans une grande usine, on pouvait relever les chiffres suivants : une agrafeuse accomplit plus de 15.000 gestes identiques dans sa journée ; une autre ouvrière doit classer 3.260 pièces, etc.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).