publisher
The verdict
“publisher” is uncommon French (frequency #71,833 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,833
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans les pays anglo-saxons, directeur commercial d’une maison d’édition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-publisher · publisher · French
publisher · rank #71,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,833
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psychologies
Nearest frequency peer: psychologies (-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 « publisher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psych
psych
28,171 corpus weight
- psychologies
psychologies
28,169 corpus weight
- publisher
publisher
28,168 corpus weight
- putt
putt
28,167 corpus weight
- puériles
puériles
28,166 corpus weight
- périphrase
périphrase
28,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « publisher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | publisher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « publisher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
publisher is uncommon French at frequency #71,833 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans les pays anglo-saxons, directeur commercial d’une maison d’édition.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for publisher, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is publisher, spelled P-U-B-L-I-S-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dans les pays anglo-saxons, directeur commercial d’une maison d’édition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how publisher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les pays anglo-saxons on distingue le publisher (celui qui tient les cordons de la bourse) de l’editor (celui qui fait les choix éditoriaux).
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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