beurrier

\bœ.ʁje\

/\bœ.ʁje\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beurrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for beurrier
PropertyValue
Headwordbeurrier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bœ.ʁje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#93,531
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « beurrier » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).beurriertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « beure » (#93,530), « Bhopal » (#93,532), « beugler » (#93,529). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « beurrier » est au #93,531. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Vendeur de beurre.
  2. 2
    Petit récipient où l’on met du beurre pour le servir à table.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how beurrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beurrier"?
"beurrier" is spelled B-E-U-R-R-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bœ.ʁje\.
What does "beurrier" mean?
As a noun, "beurrier" means: Vendeur de beurre.
How do you pronounce "beurrier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beurrier" is \bœ.ʁje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beurrier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list