contrôleuse
\kɔ̃.tʁo.løz\
The verdict
“contrôleuse” is uncommon French (frequency #80,072 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,072
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est chargée de contrôler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controleuse · contrôleuse · French
contrôleuse · rank #80,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,072
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentais
Nearest frequency peer: contentais (-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 « contrôleuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confusément
confusément
19,934 corpus weight
- consulta
consulta
19,931 corpus weight
- contentais
contentais
19,930 corpus weight
- contrôleuse
contrôleuse
19,929 corpus weight
- conventuels
conventuels
19,928 corpus weight
- cornut
cornut
19,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrôleuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁo.løz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrôleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrôleuse is uncommon French at frequency #80,072 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁo.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui est chargée de contrôler.".
contrôleuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contrôleuse, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est chargée de contrôler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrôleuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vincent Ballester, journaliste pour France 3 Champagne-Ardenne, était présent dans le train suivant, celui de 18 heures. Il rapporte un surpeuplement des rames identiques. Tout le monde était amassé dans les coursives, les bagages étaient casés en sandwich entre deux paires de jambes, et le contrôleur ou la contrôleuse n’a pas pu tout de suite entamer sa…
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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