cageur
\ka.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“cageur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier au fond chargé d'introduire les wagonets pleins dans la cage d'extraction, au moment où elle s'arrête au niveau de l'accrochage, et retirer les wagonets vides ramenés de la surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cageur · cageur · French
cageur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cageur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cageur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cageur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʒœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cageur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cageur, spelled C-A-G-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier au fond chargé d'introduire les wagonets pleins dans la cage d'extraction, au moment où elle s'arrête au niveau de l'accrochage, et retirer les wagonets vides ramenés de la surface.
- 2Ouvrier forestier chargé d'assembler et de diriger des radeaux de troncs d'arbres coupés afin de gagner une scierie, une usine de transformation ou un lieu d'embarquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cageur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le chariot arrive au fond, le cageur (chargeur d’accrochage) l’expédie dans la direction voulue […]
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