cireur
\si.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“cireur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,465
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a pour métier de cirer les chaussures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cireur · cireur · French
cireur · rank #87,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civilisationn…
Nearest frequency peer: civilisationnel (+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 « cireur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chronométrée
chronométrée
12,540 corpus weight
- châtiés
châtiés
12,539 corpus weight
- cireur
cireur
12,536 corpus weight
- civilisatio…
civilisationnel
12,535 corpus weight
- clairons
clairons
12,534 corpus weight
- claqua
claqua
12,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cireur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cireur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cireur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cireur is uncommon French at frequency #87,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui a pour métier de cirer les chaussures.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cireur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cireur, spelled C-I-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a pour métier de cirer les chaussures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cireur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, généralement, quand il y avait du soleil, des cireurs de bottes s'alignaient le long des grilles du petit jardin, et il y avait toujours une foule d'hommes de toutes les conditions en train de se faire cirer et brosser.
Les petits cireurs traînent leur attirail derrière eux, les « la mayotte » montrent contre dix centimes les modestes secrets de leur boîte à merveilles, les marchands de « piroulis » distribuent aux gosses leur cargaison de sucres d’orge, les vendeurs de « frescos » agitent leur clochette et servent en gobelet de la glace râpée, mélangée de sirop.
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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