maquilleur
\ma.ki.jœʁ\
The verdict
“maquilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #62,428 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,428
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui fait métier de maquiller, au théâtre, au cinéma, dans un institut de beauté, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maquilleur · maquilleur · French
maquilleur · rank #62,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,428
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mansart
Nearest frequency peer: mansart (-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 « maquilleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manda
manda
37,576 corpus weight
- mangouste
mangouste
37,575 corpus weight
- mansart
mansart
37,574 corpus weight
- maquilleur
maquilleur
37,573 corpus weight
- marcheront
marcheront
37,572 corpus weight
- marelle
marelle
37,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maquilleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maquilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ki.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maquilleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maquilleur is uncommon French at frequency #62,428 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ki.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui fait métier de maquiller, au théâtre, au cinéma, dans un institut de beauté, etc.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maquilleur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maquilleur, spelled M-A-Q-U-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fait métier de maquiller, au théâtre, au cinéma, dans un institut de beauté, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maquilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Samira invita la coiffeuse et le maquilleur qui attendaient dans le couloir à entrer.
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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