fusilier
\fy.zi.lje\
The verdict
“fusilier” is uncommon French (frequency #84,821 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,821
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Soldat armé d’un fusil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fusilier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.zi.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fusilier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fusilier is uncommon French at frequency #84,821 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.zi.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fusilier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fusilier, spelled F-U-S-I-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soldat armé d’un fusil.
- 2Personnel qui a pour fonction la protection des bases et sites de l’armée de l’Air ou de la Marine nationale en France et à l’étranger.
- 3Désignation du grade d’un membre d’un régiment de fusiliers détenant le grade de soldat
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 “fusilier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-U-S-I-L-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fy.zi.lje\ (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.