ferrailleur
\fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“ferrailleur” is uncommon French (frequency #64,447 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,447
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui se bat souvent à l’épée, qui en cherche les occasions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrailleur · ferrailleur · French
ferrailleur · rank #64,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,447
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figura
Nearest frequency peer: figura (+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 « ferrailleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fannie
Fannie
35,558 corpus weight
- fantasmée
fantasmée
35,557 corpus weight
- ferrailleur
ferrailleur
35,554 corpus weight
- figura
figura
35,553 corpus weight
- filée
filée
35,552 corpus weight
- flatteuses
flatteuses
35,550 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrailleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrailleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrailleur is uncommon French at frequency #64,447 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ferrailleur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ferrailleur, spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui se bat souvent à l’épée, qui en cherche les occasions.
- 2Celui qui aime la dispute, qui en cherche les occasions.
- 3Marchand de ferraille.
- 4Entreprise de recyclage des métaux.
- 5Ouvrier qui s’occupe du ferraillage ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ferrailleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fi ! monsieur de Wardes, continua Raoul, il ne sied point d’être ainsi ferrailleur quand nous avons des édits contre les duels.
Un coup d'épée galamment donné à un certain Alphonse Leduc, professeur de guitare à Nantes, … me posa en ferrailleur et en duelliste. On me citait comme une fine lame.
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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