magouilleur
\ma.ɡu.jœʁ\
The verdict
“magouilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #80,396 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,396
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui magouille ; qui aime à magouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magouilleur · magouilleur · French
magouilleur · rank #80,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,396
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnanimité
Nearest frequency peer: magnanimité (-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 « magouilleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macronisme
macronisme
19,608 corpus weight
- magnanimité
magnanimité
19,606 corpus weight
- magouilleur
magouilleur
19,605 corpus weight
- malinké
malinké
19,604 corpus weight
- malvenue
malvenue
19,603 corpus weight
- Manceaux
Manceaux
19,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magouilleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magouilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ɡu.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magouilleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magouilleur is uncommon French at frequency #80,396 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ɡu.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui magouille ; qui aime à magouiller.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for magouilleur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is magouilleur, spelled M-A-G-O-U-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui magouille ; qui aime à magouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how magouilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre ses numéros d'acteurs et ses sketches comiques, Érotissimo apparaît comme une aimable critique de la société française pompidolienne de 1968, à travers ses ouvriers rêveurs, ses employés feignants, ses concepteurs lunatiques et incompris, ses chefs d'entreprise âpres au gain et magouilleurs, ses fonctionnaires bornés et revanchards, tout cela confro…
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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