racoleur
\ʁa.kɔ.lœʁ\
The verdict
“racoleur” is uncommon French (frequency #66,271 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,271
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui faisait profession d’engager des hommes pour le service militaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racoleur · racoleur · French
racoleur · rank #66,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racinaire
Nearest frequency peer: racinaire (-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 « racoleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périurbain
périurbain
33,735 corpus weight
- racinaire
racinaire
33,731 corpus weight
- racoleur
racoleur
33,730 corpus weight
- rag
rag
33,728 corpus weight
- raise
raise
33,727 corpus weight
- rangea
rangea
33,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « racoleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racoleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « racoleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
racoleur is uncommon French at frequency #66,271 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.kɔ.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
racoleur has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is racoleur, spelled R-A-C-O-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui faisait profession d’engager des hommes pour le service militaire.
- 2Personne qui racole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racoleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce petit cabaret, je trouvai trois braves dont les chapeaux étaient galonnés d’or, l’uniforme blanc, les revers roses, les moustaches cirées de noir, les cheveux tout poudrés à frimas, et qui parlaient aussi vite que des vendeurs d’orviétan. Ces trois braves étaient d’honnêtes racoleurs.
— On a toujours fait pour le bien ! leur psychologie du racoleur leur ayant depuis longtemps appris que celui-ci interprétait toujours le « bon côté » et le « bien » comme étant sa façon de voir à lui et d’agir.
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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