psautier
\pso.tje\
The verdict
“psautier” is uncommon French (frequency #52,926 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,926
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recueil des psaumes composés par David ou qui lui sont communément attribués.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psautier · psautier · French
psautier · rank #52,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,926
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préventifs
Nearest frequency peer: préventifs (-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 « psautier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prospectives
prospectives
47,078 corpus weight
- prussiennes
prussiennes
47,077 corpus weight
- préventifs
préventifs
47,076 corpus weight
- psautier
psautier
47,075 corpus weight
- psychology
psychology
47,074 corpus weight
- puritain
puritain
47,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psautier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psautier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pso.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psautier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psautier is uncommon French at frequency #52,926 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pso.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for psautier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is psautier, spelled P-S-A-U-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Recueil des psaumes composés par David ou qui lui sont communément attribués.
- 2Livre, manuscrit ou imprimé, qui contient les psaumes.
- 3Voile qui couvre la tête et les épaules, porté par quelques religieuses.
- 4Chapelet monastique doté de 150 grains, autant qu’il y a de psaumes dans le psautier chrétien.
- 5Se dit des abats formés par le feuillet des ruminants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psautier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Savoir le psautier par cœur.
D’abord, un vieux psautier, infiniment petit entre ses fermoirs d’argent, comme un livre de poupée, et qui avait dû être une merveille typographique à son époque.
Synonyms
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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