fusilier
\fy.zi.lje\
The verdict
“fusilier” is uncommon French (frequency #84,821 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,821
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat armé d’un fusil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fusilier · fusilier · French
fusilier · rank #84,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,821
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FTC
Nearest frequency peer: FTC (-2 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 « fusilier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- franciscain…
franciscaines
15,186 corpus weight
- frat
frat
15,184 corpus weight
- FTC
FTC
15,182 corpus weight
- fusilier
fusilier
15,180 corpus weight
- félonie
félonie
15,178 corpus weight
- Galia
Galia
15,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fusilier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « fusilier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fusilier is uncommon French at frequency #84,821 among 3,276 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fusilier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette expédition consistait en trois embarcations armées, portant vingt fusiliers, et une autre sur laquelle était monté un pierrier ou petit canon de deux livres.
Abraham entama un mouvement sur la droite afin de dégager son angle de tir, il visa en plein galop. Son projectile emporta le visage d’un des soldats anglais. Il était tout proche des fusiliers et, dans peu de temps, il les dépasserait et foncerait à bride abattue sur la tranchée.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).