fossoyeurs
\fɔ.swa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“fossoyeurs” is uncommon French (frequency #57,961 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,961
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fossoyeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fossoyeurs · fossoyeurs · French
fossoyeurs · rank #57,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,961
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forfaiture
Nearest frequency peer: forfaiture (-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 « fossoyeurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figureront
figureront
42,044 corpus weight
- follet
follet
42,042 corpus weight
- forfaiture
forfaiture
42,041 corpus weight
- fossoyeurs
fossoyeurs
42,040 corpus weight
- fragmentaire
fragmentaire
42,039 corpus weight
- frigorifiqu…
frigorifiques
42,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fossoyeurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fossoyeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.swa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fossoyeurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fossoyeurs is uncommon French at frequency #57,961 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.swa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fossoyeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fossoyeurs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 fossoyeurs, spelled F-O-S-S-O-Y-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fossoyeur.
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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