cadreur
\ka.dʁœʁ\
The verdict
“cadreur” is uncommon French (frequency #75,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,471
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Responsable de la caméra et du cadrage des images, sous l’autorité du directeur de la photographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadreur · cadreur · French
cadreur · rank #75,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,471
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cacas
Nearest frequency peer: cacas (-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 « cadreur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabris
cabris
24,532 corpus weight
- cacas
cacas
24,531 corpus weight
- cadreur
cadreur
24,530 corpus weight
- calamine
calamine
24,529 corpus weight
- calculait
calculait
24,528 corpus weight
- calédonienne
calédonienne
24,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cadreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cadreur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cadreur is uncommon French at frequency #75,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.dʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Responsable de la caméra et du cadrage des images, sous l’autorité du directeur de la photographie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cadreur, 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 cadreur, spelled C-A-D-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Responsable de la caméra et du cadrage des images, sous l’autorité du directeur de la photographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cadreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les films, en général, à l’image, il y avait deux postes importants : le directeur photo et le cadreur.
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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