fauconnier
\fɔ.kɔ.nje\
The verdict
“fauconnier” is an uncommon French word, ranked #59,283 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,283
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui dresse et gouverne les oiseaux de proie et qui les fait voler.
| 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) |
Where “fauconnier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fauconnier is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ.kɔ.nje\. Corpus data places it at rank #59,283 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “fauconnier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-C-O-N-N-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɔ.kɔ.nje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.