faucheur
\fo.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“faucheur” is uncommon French (frequency #60,784 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,784
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier qui fauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faucheur · faucheur · French
faucheur · rank #60,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,784
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatras
Nearest frequency peer: fatras (-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 « faucheur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanzine
fanzine
39,222 corpus weight
- faon
faon
39,221 corpus weight
- farms
farms
39,219 corpus weight
- fatras
fatras
39,218 corpus weight
- faucheur
faucheur
39,217 corpus weight
- favorisa
favorisa
39,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faucheur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faucheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faucheur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faucheur is uncommon French at frequency #60,784 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faucheur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is faucheur, spelled F-A-U-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier qui fauche.
- 2Meuble représentant un personnage pratiquant le métier du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est représenté avec une faux dont la position doit être blasonnée. À rapprocher de batteur en grange, bûcheron, forgeron, meunier et vigneron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faucheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il criait si fort, que la voix se cassait dans sa gorge et que des faucheurs, qui coupaient du regain dans un pré, levèrent curieusement la tête.
Avec tout cela inclus, les mesures de rendement faites donnent la valeur moyenne de 150 à 200 kg de foin par jour par faucheur. Ainsi, un faucheur' peut récolter en 4 jours de quoi nourrir en complément une bonne vache pendant la saison sèche, soit de 600 à 800 kg de foin.
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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