fruitière
\fʁɥi.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fruitière” is uncommon French (frequency #53,361 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,361
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui fait le commerce au détail des fruits, du fromage et du beurre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fruitiere · fruitière · French
fruitière · rank #53,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,361
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frôlent
Nearest frequency peer: frôlent (+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 « fruitière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fracassante
fracassante
46,643 corpus weight
- Francie
Francie
46,642 corpus weight
- fruitière
fruitière
46,640 corpus weight
- frôlent
frôlent
46,639 corpus weight
- fuchsia
fuchsia
46,638 corpus weight
- fusionnant
fusionnant
46,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fruitière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fruitière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɥi.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fruitière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fruitière is uncommon French at frequency #53,361 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɥi.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fruitière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 fruitière, spelled F-R-U-I-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui fait le commerce au détail des fruits, du fromage et du beurre.
- 2Coopérative fromagère ou vinicole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fruitière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors de l’enregistrement de l’édit par le Parlement au cours du lit de justice tenu le 12 mars 1776 par le Parlement, l’avocat général Ségnier, porte parole de l’Assemblée, convint, tout en défendant le système corporatif, que celui-ci avait donné lieu, au détriment des femmes, à d’intolérables abus, qu’il fallait rendre libres certaines professions fémin…
La veuve Levêque, maîtresse fruitière, reçut la visite des jurés de la corporation des liquoristes, parce qu’elle vendait de l’alcool en petites quantités.
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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