fumiste
\fy.mist\
The verdict
“fumiste” is uncommon French (frequency #89,742 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,742
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui installe, entretient et répare des cheminées ou appareils de chauffage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumiste · fumiste · French
fumiste · rank #89,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,742
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fugain
Nearest frequency peer: Fugain (-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 « fumiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fraysse
Fraysse
10,263 corpus weight
- Fugain
Fugain
10,260 corpus weight
- fumiste
fumiste
10,259 corpus weight
- fémurs
fémurs
10,258 corpus weight
- gables
gables
10,257 corpus weight
- Gabriac
Gabriac
10,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.mist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumiste is uncommon French at frequency #89,742 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.mist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fumiste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 fumiste, spelled F-U-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui installe, entretient et répare des cheminées ou appareils de chauffage.
- 2Mauvais plaisant, personne sans sérieux, sur qui on ne peut pas compter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Paris on fit un choix parmi nous ; ceux qui étaient forts furent placés chez des fumistes ou des maîtres ramoneurs ; ceux qui n’étaient pas assez solides pour un métier allèrent chanter ou jouer de la vielle dans les rues.
Les savants, les chimistes et les fumistes cherchent en vain le moyen de détruire le phylloxéra, ce sont les fumistes qui ont seul trouvé le moyen de... se moquer des gogos.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).