empoisonneur
\ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“empoisonneur” is uncommon French (frequency #91,650 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,650
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui empoisonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empoisonneur · empoisonneur · French
empoisonneur · rank #91,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,650
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emplies
Nearest frequency peer: emplies (-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 « empoisonneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emotional
emotional
8,353 corpus weight
- emplies
emplies
8,352 corpus weight
- empoisonneur
empoisonneur
8,351 corpus weight
- empêtrée
empêtrée
8,350 corpus weight
- encapsulati…
encapsulation
8,347 corpus weight
- encyclopaed…
encyclopaedia
8,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empoisonneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empoisonneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empoisonneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empoisonneur is uncommon French at frequency #91,650 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for empoisonneur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 empoisonneur, spelled E-M-P-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui empoisonne.
- 2Mauvais cuisinier.
- 3Homme qui débite une doctrine pernicieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empoisonneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catherine de Médicis était seule, […] la tête posée sur sa main encore remarquablement belle, grâce au cosmétique que lui fournissait le Florentin René, qui réunissait la double charge de parfumeur et d’empoisonneur de la reine mère.
Les magistrats acquirent bientôt la conviction que l’empoisonneur était... une empoisonneuse : la propre mère du petit Henri, Charlotte Lamarche.
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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