oiseleur
\wa.zlœʁ\
The verdict
“oiseleur” is uncommon French (frequency #93,049 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,049
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui capture les oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oiseleur · oiseleur · French
oiseleur · rank #93,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,049
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Okazaki
Nearest frequency peer: Okazaki (+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 « oiseleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oca
oca
6,956 corpus weight
- octavo
octavo
6,954 corpus weight
- oiseleur
oiseleur
6,952 corpus weight
- Okazaki
Okazaki
6,951 corpus weight
- onusiennes
onusiennes
6,949 corpus weight
- orléanaise
orléanaise
6,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oiseleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oiseleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wa.zlœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oiseleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oiseleur is uncommon French at frequency #93,049 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \wa.zlœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
oiseleur has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oiseleur, spelled O-I-S-E-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui capture les oiseaux.
- 2Qualifie des vents tièdes soufflant au début du printemps, au moment des premières nidifications.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oiseleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Araignées Oiseleuses
Souvent le serpent oiseleur, Cache sa tête empoisonnée Sous le buisson le plus en fleur.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).