beurrier
\bœ.ʁje\
The verdict
“beurrier” is uncommon French (frequency #93,531 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,531
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendeur de beurre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beurrier · beurrier · French
beurrier · rank #93,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,531
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beure
Nearest frequency peer: beure (-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 « beurrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bessemer
Bessemer
6,473 corpus weight
- beugler
beugler
6,472 corpus weight
- beure
beure
6,471 corpus weight
- beurrier
beurrier
6,470 corpus weight
- Bhopal
Bhopal
6,469 corpus weight
- BHP
BHP
6,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beurrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beurrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœ.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beurrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beurrier is uncommon French at frequency #93,531 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bœ.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for beurrier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 beurrier, spelled B-E-U-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Vendeur de beurre.
- 2Petit récipient où l’on met du beurre pour le servir à table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beurrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’il revint dans son cabinet, complètement soulagé parce qu’il avait menacé de gifler un jeune beurrier du cru, dont il avait interrompu la partie avec Nico et qui avait osé l’appeler vieux jeton, M. Bernomdunchien décida de se remettre au travail.
Il y aurait sur la table un gros beurrier de grès, des pots de marmelade, du miel, des toasts, des pamplemousses coupés en deux.
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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