fauconnier
\fɔ.kɔ.nje\
The verdict
“fauconnier” is uncommon French (frequency #59,283 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,283
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui dresse et gouverne les oiseaux de proie et qui les fait voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fauconnier · fauconnier · French
fauconnier · rank #59,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,283
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fards
Nearest frequency peer: fards (-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 « fauconnier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantassin
fantassin
40,720 corpus weight
- fards
fards
40,719 corpus weight
- fauconnier
fauconnier
40,718 corpus weight
- faussetés
faussetés
40,717 corpus weight
- fauteur
fauteur
40,716 corpus weight
- ferrata
ferrata
40,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fauconnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fauconnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.kɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fauconnier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fauconnier is uncommon French at frequency #59,283 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.kɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui dresse et gouverne les oiseaux de proie et qui les fait voler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fauconnier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fauconnier, spelled F-A-U-C-O-N-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui dresse et gouverne les oiseaux de proie et qui les fait voler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fauconnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ont même fondé un village qui , à un certain temps , était presqu’exclusivement habité par des fauconniers et qui doit à l'industrie du piégeage qui le fit vivre le nom qu'il porte encore aujourd'hui de Valkenswaard , « le village des Faucons ».
L'opération principale était la ciliure, qui consistait à coudre les paupières de l'oiseau; on lui rendait l'usage de la lumière quand il était habitué à obéir à la voix du fauconnier; […].
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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