railleur
\ʁa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“railleur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porté à la raillerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-railleur · railleur · French
railleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | railleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « railleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
railleur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
railleur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is railleur, spelled R-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Porté à la raillerie.
- 2Qui est empreint de railleries, qui est dit pour railler, pour plaisanter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how railleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esprit railleur. - Humeur railleuse. - Cet homme est trop railleur.
Un genre de littérature dont l'origine nous appartient plus complètement, ce sont ces contes et fabliaux, peinture familière et railleuse de la vie privée, ….
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.