démineur
\de.mi.nœʁ\
The verdict
“démineur” is uncommon French (frequency #65,892 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne dont le métier consiste à désactiver des mines, bombes ou autres munitions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demineur · démineur · French
démineur · rank #65,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déments
Nearest frequency peer: déments (-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 « démineur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délabrés
délabrés
34,112 corpus weight
- délester
délester
34,111 corpus weight
- déments
déments
34,110 corpus weight
- démineur
démineur
34,109 corpus weight
- démonstrati…
démonstrative
34,108 corpus weight
- démoraliser
démoraliser
34,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démineur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démineur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mi.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démineur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démineur is uncommon French at frequency #65,892 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.mi.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for démineur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 démineur, spelled D-É-M-I-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne dont le métier consiste à désactiver des mines, bombes ou autres munitions.
- 2Jeu informatique consistant à déminer une grille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démineur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais un second allumeur peut être caché et faire exploser l’engin lorsqu’un démineur inexpérimenté essaiera de déterrer ce dernier.
En attendant les démineurs pour les sortir de là, la police militaire sur la route faisait circuler les convois et interdisait l'approche du périmètre miné.
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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