guichetier
\ɡiʃ.tje\
The verdict
“guichetier” is uncommon French (frequency #80,264 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,264
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gardien, gardienne de prison qui ouvre et ferme les guichets et qui a soin d’empêcher que les prisonniers ne s’évadent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guichetier · guichetier · French
guichetier · rank #80,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,264
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH géorgiennes
Nearest frequency peer: géorgiennes (+4 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 « guichetier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grenaille
grenaille
19,744 corpus weight
- grimpa
grimpa
19,743 corpus weight
- grincent
grincent
19,742 corpus weight
- guichetier
guichetier
19,737 corpus weight
- géorgiennes
géorgiennes
19,733 corpus weight
- gênaient
gênaient
19,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guichetier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guichetier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡiʃ.tje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guichetier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guichetier is uncommon French at frequency #80,264 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡiʃ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guichetier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guichetier, spelled G-U-I-C-H-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gardien, gardienne de prison qui ouvre et ferme les guichets et qui a soin d’empêcher que les prisonniers ne s’évadent.
- 2Employé préposé à un guichet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guichetier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ; puis, pour surcroît de bonheur, le sacristain, trop étourdi pour bien remplir son devoir de guichetier, ferma les verrous en dehors de leur gâche, de manière que la porte resta entrebâillée.
J'ai quelques visites, et, ma foi !comme on ne me traite pas trop mal, je reçois les gens dans un petit parloir, sans grilles, sans guichetier tendant l'oreille.
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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