pusher

\pu.ʃøʁ\

/\pu.ʃøʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pusher” is uncommon French (frequency #90,073 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,073
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendeur (criminel) de drogues à la sauvette.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pusher · pusher · French

pusher · rank #90,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,073
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH préférèrent

Nearest frequency peer: préférèrent (-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 « pusher »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pusher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pusher
PropertyValue
Headwordpusher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.ʃøʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,073
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pusher » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pushertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « préférèrent » (#90,072), « précolombienne » (#90,071), « pédalage » (#90,075). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pusher » est au #90,073. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pusher is uncommon French at frequency #90,073 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.ʃøʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vendeur (criminel) de drogues à la sauvette.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pusher, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 pusher, spelled P-U-S-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vendeur (criminel) de drogues à la sauvette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pusher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Bientôt, si ça continue, les pushers vont nous aborder dans les parcs en murmurant : « Pssst ! J’ai des tests de dépistage rapide ! Ça te tente-tu ? J’ai aussi des masques N95 flambants neufs ! »
  2. « Hachish, cocaïne, héroïne, marijuana », murmurait inlassablement le pusher sans jamais regarder les passants dans les yeux.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pusher"?
"pusher" is spelled P-U-S-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.ʃøʁ\.
What does "pusher" mean?
As a noun, "pusher" means: Vendeur (criminel) de drogues à la sauvette.
How do you pronounce "pusher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pusher" is \pu.ʃøʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pusher" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pusher", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pliait#90,037perlée#90,019pavots#90,014rhymes#90,132

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list