buraliste
\by.ʁa.list\
The verdict
“buraliste” is uncommon French (frequency #50,694 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,694
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne préposée à un bureau de paiement, de distribution, de recette, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buraliste · buraliste · French
buraliste · rank #50,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,694
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bévue
Nearest frequency peer: bévue (+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 « buraliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buraliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buraliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ʁa.list\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buraliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buraliste is uncommon French at frequency #50,694 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.ʁa.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
buraliste has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is buraliste, spelled B-U-R-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne préposée à un bureau de paiement, de distribution, de recette, etc.
- 2Particulièrement personne qui tient un bureau de tabac (seul autorisé, en France et dans ses ex-colonies, à vendre du tabac et produits dérivés).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buraliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; j’ai lieu de penser qu’un paquet a été perdu. Dans notre petite ville du Berry, nous avons un buraliste fort négligent, et toutes nos lettres ne nous arrivent pas toujours.
une de ces buralistes qui, à la veillée, manient leur machine à coudre comme leur télégraphe, sans chercher à savoir si elles piquent des chemises ou des mouchoirs.
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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