cantonnier
\kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\
The verdict
“cantonnier” is uncommon French (frequency #90,508 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,508
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est employé par l’administration pour travailler à l’entretien des routes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cantonnier · cantonnier · French
cantonnier · rank #90,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,508
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canidé
Nearest frequency peer: Canidé (-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 « cantonnier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caliban
Caliban
9,497 corpus weight
- campant
campant
9,495 corpus weight
- Canidé
Canidé
9,494 corpus weight
- cantonnier
cantonnier
9,493 corpus weight
- capitalisés
capitalisés
9,492 corpus weight
- carabinier
carabinier
9,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cantonnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cantonnier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cantonnier is uncommon French at frequency #90,508 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.tɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cantonnier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cantonnier, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est employé par l’administration pour travailler à l’entretien des routes.
- 2Balayeur.
- 3Préposé au maniement des sémaphores ferroviaires.
- 4Fromage de Québec au lait de vache à pâte molle à croûte lavée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cantonnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle savait qu’après un herbage il y avait un poteau, ensuite un orme, une grange ou une cahute de cantonnier.
Autrefois, monsieur, il y avait à cette fontaine un seuil de pierre. Les cantonniers s’en sont servis comme de moellon pour la construction du pont qui est là-bas.
Synonyms
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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