bookmaker
\buk.mɛ.kœʁ\
The verdict
“bookmaker” is uncommon French (frequency #56,451 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,451
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bookmaker · bookmaker · French
bookmaker · rank #56,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bossez
Nearest frequency peer: bossez (+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 « bookmaker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bookmaker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bookmaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buk.mɛ.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bookmaker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bookmaker is uncommon French at frequency #56,451 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buk.mɛ.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.".
bookmaker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bookmaker, spelled B-O-O-K-M-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bookmaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les individus qui spéculent sur les courses sont appelés Bookmakers, et les paris sont inscrits sur un livre officiel que l’on appelle Betting-Book.
Il avait gâté son coup superbe par une plate bêtise, un vol idiot, en chargeant Maréchal, un bookmaker véreux, de donner pour son compte deux mille louis contre Lusignan.
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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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