allumeur
\a.ly.mœʁ\
The verdict
“allumeur” is uncommon French (frequency #83,572 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,572
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui était (autrefois) chargé d’allumer quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumeur · allumeur · French
allumeur · rank #83,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,572
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alleu
Nearest frequency peer: alleu (-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 « allumeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aleph
aleph
16,432 corpus weight
- alezan
alezan
16,431 corpus weight
- alleu
alleu
16,430 corpus weight
- allumeur
allumeur
16,429 corpus weight
- Allyson
Allyson
16,428 corpus weight
- allèle
allèle
16,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allumeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allumeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allumeur is uncommon French at frequency #83,572 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ly.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for allumeur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 allumeur, spelled A-L-L-U-M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui était (autrefois) chargé d’allumer quelque chose.
- 2Agent provocateur.
- 3Compère chargé de faire de fausses enchères dans une vente.
- 4Homme qui cherche à exciter le désir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allumeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lucerne ou lanterne d’allumeur renferme , outre une lampe fixe , une petite lampe à main, qui tient lieu de bougie pour l'allumage des phares.
Nous étions salariés par le gouvernement pour inspecter les routes et surveiller les allumeurs des phares.
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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