ajusteur
\a.ʒys.tœʁ\
The verdict
“ajusteur” is uncommon French (frequency #78,110 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,110
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opérateur qui assemble des pièces exécutées par d’autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ajusteur · ajusteur · French
ajusteur · rank #78,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,110
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agrafeuse
Nearest frequency peer: agrafeuse (-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 « ajusteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- amorcent
amorcent
21,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ajusteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ajusteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒys.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ajusteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ajusteur is uncommon French at frequency #78,110 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʒys.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ajusteur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ajusteur, spelled A-J-U-S-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Opérateur qui assemble des pièces exécutées par d’autres.
- 2Celui qui ajuste les monnaies.
- 3Ouvrier qualifié qui ajuste finement les pièces métalliques à assembler, initialement avec un grattoir à main.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ajusteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un homme de l’intelligence d’un travailleur moyen peut être dressé au travail le plus délicat et le plus difficile s’il se répète suffisamment, et sa mentalité inférieure le rend plus apte que l’ajusteur à subir la monotonie de la répétition.
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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