botteur
\bɔ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“botteur” is uncommon French (frequency #93,545 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,545
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joueur chargé des coups de pied lors des phases statiques (coup d’envoi, coups de pied de renvoi, renvois aux 22 mètres, pénalités, pénaltouches, transformations).
Corpus desk
Index FR-botteur · botteur · French
botteur · rank #93,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,545
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boro
Nearest frequency peer: boro (-2 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 « botteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonifiés
bonifiés
6,461 corpus weight
- booter
booter
6,460 corpus weight
- Borissov
Borissov
6,459 corpus weight
- boro
boro
6,458 corpus weight
- botteur
botteur
6,456 corpus weight
- bribe
bribe
6,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « botteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « botteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
botteur is uncommon French at frequency #93,545 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for botteur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is botteur, spelled B-O-T-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Joueur chargé des coups de pied lors des phases statiques (coup d’envoi, coups de pied de renvoi, renvois aux 22 mètres, pénalités, pénaltouches, transformations).
- 2En football canadien, joueur chargé du botté d'envoi et/ou du botté d'après-touché, selon les circonstances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how botteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La préoccupation principale était d’encourager le jeu à la main, afin que la gloire ne revienne pas systématiquement au botteur mais à l’ensemble de l’équipe.
Également au cinquième tour, les Alouettes ont misé sur le botteur David Côté, lui aussi du club de la Vieille Capitale.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).