coutelier
\ku.tə.lje\
The verdict
“coutelier” is uncommon French (frequency #92,593 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,593
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est de fabriquer, de réparer, ou de vendre des couteaux ou d’autres instruments tranchants tels que ciseaux, canifs, rasoirs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutelier · coutelier · French
coutelier · rank #92,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,593
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craps
Nearest frequency peer: craps (+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 « coutelier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cotten
Cotten
7,411 corpus weight
- couplages
couplages
7,410 corpus weight
- coutelier
coutelier
7,408 corpus weight
- craps
craps
7,407 corpus weight
- cravacher
cravacher
7,406 corpus weight
- Creusois
Creusois
7,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coutelier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coutelier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.tə.lje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coutelier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coutelier is uncommon French at frequency #92,593 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.tə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui dont le métier est de fabriquer, de réparer, ou de vendre des couteaux ou d’autres instruments tranchants tels que ciseaux, canifs, rasoirs, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coutelier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coutelier, spelled C-O-U-T-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier est de fabriquer, de réparer, ou de vendre des couteaux ou d’autres instruments tranchants tels que ciseaux, canifs, rasoirs, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coutelier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finalement, son père le mit en apprentissage chez un coutelier, mais les frais étaient trop élevés et il le fit revenir à la maison.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).