chaudronnier
\ʃo.dʁɔ.nje\
The verdict
“chaudronnier” is uncommon French (frequency #75,498 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,498
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait, vend des chaudrons et autres ustensiles de cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaudronnier · chaudronnier · French
chaudronnier · rank #75,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,498
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chatbot
Nearest frequency peer: chatbot (-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 « chaudronnier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charbonnièr…
charbonnières
24,506 corpus weight
- charcuter
charcuter
24,505 corpus weight
- chatbot
chatbot
24,504 corpus weight
- chaudronnier
chaudronnier
24,503 corpus weight
- Chaumette
Chaumette
24,502 corpus weight
- Chaville
Chaville
24,501 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaudronnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaudronnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.dʁɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaudronnier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaudronnier is uncommon French at frequency #75,498 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃo.dʁɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chaudronnier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 chaudronnier, spelled C-H-A-U-D-R-O-N-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait, vend des chaudrons et autres ustensiles de cuisine.
- 2Ouvrier qualifié qui travaille le métal et plus particulièrement qui forge : la tôle, tubes, plats, et les pièces déjà usinées pour en faire des produits industriels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chaudronnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les corporations exclusivement féminines restent l’exception, les corporations mixtes qui admettent indistinctement les hommes et les femmes sont extrêmement nombreuses. Parmi celles-ci, il faut citer les drapiers, les tisserands, les grainiers (Rouen, Paris), les passementiers (Paris, Tours, Clermont), les cabaretiers (Tours, Orléans), les tonneliers…
Il y a un chaudronnier en train de taper sur du beau cuivre rouge, que le marteau marque comme une croupe de jument pommelée et qui fait « dzine, dzine, » sur le carreau ; chaque coup me fait froncer la peau et cligner des yeux.
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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