artificier
\aʁ.ti.fi.sje\
The verdict
“artificier” is uncommon French (frequency #59,079 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,079
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artisan qui fabrique des pièces d’artifice ou tire des feux d’artifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artificier · artificier · French
artificier · rank #59,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,079
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argentier
Nearest frequency peer: argentier (-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 « artificier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appliqua
appliqua
40,925 corpus weight
- argentier
argentier
40,923 corpus weight
- artificier
artificier
40,922 corpus weight
- asservis
asservis
40,921 corpus weight
- assombri
assombri
40,920 corpus weight
- attentionnés
attentionnés
40,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « artificier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | artificier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.fi.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « artificier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
artificier is uncommon French at frequency #59,079 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ti.fi.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for artificier in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is artificier, spelled A-R-T-I-F-I-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Artisan qui fabrique des pièces d’artifice ou tire des feux d’artifice.
- 2Personne qui, dans l’armée, est chargée du service pyrotechnique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how artificier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les festivités se clôtureront avec un tout nouveau festival pyro-symphonique, à 22 heures, avec trois artificiers internationaux (Espagne, France, Pologne).
Mes aïeux se firent artificiers, c’est-à-dire qu’ils fabriquèrent de la poudre, des cartouches et des fusées. L’un d’eux, un arrière-grand-oncle, jaillit un jour de sa boutique à travers une fenêtre fermée, dans une apothéose d’étincelles, entouré de soleils tournoyants, sur une gerbe de chandelles romaines.
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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