piégeur
\pje.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“piégeur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui chasse à l’aide de pièges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piegeur · piégeur · French
piégeur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | piégeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piégeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piégeur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pje.ʒœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for piégeur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is piégeur, spelled P-I-É-G-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui chasse à l’aide de pièges.
- 2composé chimique qui sert à en piéger un autre, souvent indésirable, en réagissant avec lui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piégeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’une lente pression du pouce le piégeur défonçait le bréchet. L’œil se ternissait, le col mollissait…
Piégeur d'acide, piégeur de radicaux libres, piégeur d'oxygène.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.