machineur
\ma.ʃi.nœʁ\
The verdict
“machineur” 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) - Celui qui machine, qui fait des menées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machineur · machineur · French
machineur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | machineur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃi.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « machineur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
machineur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʃi.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
machineur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is machineur, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui machine, qui fait des menées.
- 2Personne qui conduit une machine ; ouvrier attaché au service des machines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how machineur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui-même ouvrit ce coffre et rendit bien surpris Tous les machineurs d’impostures.
Metius est celui qui a esté cause, machineur et empreneur de ceste bataille.
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.