grutier
\ɡʁy.tje\
The verdict
“grutier” is uncommon French (frequency #91,751 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,751
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier qui assemble et manœuvre une grue de chantier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grutier · grutier · French
grutier · rank #91,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,751
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grouiller
Nearest frequency peer: grouiller (-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 « grutier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Graulhet
Graulhet
8,254 corpus weight
- greed
greed
8,253 corpus weight
- grouiller
grouiller
8,251 corpus weight
- grutier
grutier
8,250 corpus weight
- Guglielmo
Guglielmo
8,247 corpus weight
- guidons
guidons
8,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grutier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grutier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁy.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grutier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grutier is uncommon French at frequency #91,751 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁy.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grutier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grutier, spelled G-R-U-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier qui assemble et manœuvre une grue de chantier.
- 2Employé dont la charge est l’enlevage des véhicules mal garés ou délaissés, en direction de la fourrière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grutier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au début du chantier, le grutier procède au montage de la grue après avoir défini le tracé de la voie indispensable lorsque la grue devra se déplacer.
Comme il restait immobile et silencieux, le grutier regagna sa cabine. Dès qu’il fut assis sur son siège, le moteur rugit, la petite cheminée qui montait le long de la cabine lâcha un nuage de fumée bleue, et les chenilles grincèrent tandis que le bras se levait, ouvrant sa mâchoire aux longues dents luisantes.
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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