dompteur
\dɔ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“dompteur” is uncommon French (frequency #55,883 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,883
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui dompte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dompteur · dompteur · French
dompteur · rank #55,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH documentaliste
Nearest frequency peer: documentaliste (-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 « dompteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diurétique
diurétique
44,121 corpus weight
- divagations
divagations
44,120 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentaliste
44,119 corpus weight
- dompteur
dompteur
44,118 corpus weight
- dop
dop
44,117 corpus weight
- driving
driving
44,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dompteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dompteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dompteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dompteur is uncommon French at frequency #55,883 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ̃.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dompteur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 dompteur, spelled D-O-M-P-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui dompte.
- 2Celui qui fait profession de dompter les bêtes dites « féroces », ou n’importe quel animal non domestique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dompteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un dompteur de fauves.
Il avait revêtu la tenue rouge galonnée d’or de l’équipage du duc, et ressemblait à ce dompteur de Médrano que j’admirais dans mon enfance.
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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