enchérisseur
\ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sœʁ\
The verdict
“enchérisseur” is uncommon French (frequency #72,294 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,294
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait une enchère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encherisseur · enchérisseur · French
enchérisseur · rank #72,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,294
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empiètent
Nearest frequency peer: empiètent (-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 « enchérisseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embêtent
embêtent
27,711 corpus weight
- emparait
emparait
27,709 corpus weight
- empiètent
empiètent
27,708 corpus weight
- enchérisseur
enchérisseur
27,707 corpus weight
- enfoncez
enfoncez
27,706 corpus weight
- enfoncées
enfoncées
27,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enchérisseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enchérisseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #72,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enchérisseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enchérisseur is uncommon French at frequency #72,294 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait une enchère.".
enchérisseur has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is enchérisseur, spelled E-N-C-H-É-R-I-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait une enchère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enchérisseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le denier à Dieu, donné d’abord volontairement, était quelquefois exigé ; ainsi dans une vente à l’encan, le dernier enchérisseur devait toujours consigner son denier à Dieu.
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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