corroyer
\kɔ.ʁwa.je\
The verdict
“corroyer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Préparer des cuirs pour les rendre plus souples après tannage et leur donner le dernier apprêt pour les divers usages auxquels ils doivent servir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corroyer · corroyer · French
corroyer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | corroyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “corroyer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
corroyer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.ʁwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for corroyer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is corroyer, spelled C-O-R-R-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Préparer des cuirs pour les rendre plus souples après tannage et leur donner le dernier apprêt pour les divers usages auxquels ils doivent servir.
- 2Malaxer, pétrir avec de l'eau.
- 3Battre, écraser, souder à chaud.
- 4Dégrossir la surface d’une pièce de bois pour la dresser.
- 5(fonderie) Corroyer du sable, en écraser toutes les mottes, pour le rendre plus maniable.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.