enfant de fusil
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\
The verdict
“enfant de fusil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfant-de-fusil · enfant de fusil · French
enfant de fusil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfant de fusil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfant de fusil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfant de fusil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɑ̃ də fy.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enfant de fusil, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 enfant de fusil, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T- -D-E- -F-U-S-I-L.
Definition
- 1Personne méprisable ou importune, parfois utilisé de manière plaisante sans intention réelle d’injurier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enfant de fusil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Eh bien ! Frenchy ! Quelle espèce d’histoire court… Je n’en crois pas un mot… Cet enfant de fusil de rouquin est bien de taille à l’avoir forgée de toute pièce pour enlever la femme de son voisin.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.