houilleur
^((h aspiré))\u.jœʁ\
The verdict
“houilleur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mineur qui travaille aux mines de houille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houilleur · houilleur · French
houilleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
houilleur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\u.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mineur qui travaille aux mines de houille.".
houilleur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is houilleur, spelled H-O-U-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Mineur qui travaille aux mines de houille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how houilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Walthère LEPOURQUE, houilleur, délégué de l'Association des Mineurs de Seraing.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.