costumier
\kɔs.ty.mje\
The verdict
“costumier” is uncommon French (frequency #66,623 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,623
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes de théâtre, de bal, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costumier · costumier · French
costumier · rank #66,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,623
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cossette
Nearest frequency peer: cossette (-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 « costumier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corporatives
corporatives
33,381 corpus weight
- cossette
cossette
33,379 corpus weight
- costumier
costumier
33,378 corpus weight
- coucherai
coucherai
33,377 corpus weight
- couronnant
couronnant
33,376 corpus weight
- CQ
CQ
33,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costumier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costumier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.ty.mje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costumier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costumier is uncommon French at frequency #66,623 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔs.ty.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes de théâtre, de bal, etc.".
costumier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 costumier, spelled C-O-S-T-U-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes de théâtre, de bal, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costumier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le costumier d’un théâtre.
Louer un domino chez le costumier.
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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