ramoneur
\ʁa.mɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“ramoneur” is uncommon French (frequency #67,051 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,051
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est de ramoner les cheminées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramoneur · ramoneur · French
ramoneur · rank #67,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rameuse
Nearest frequency peer: rameuse (-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 « ramoneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ramasseur
ramasseur
32,953 corpus weight
- ramdam
ramdam
32,952 corpus weight
- rameuse
rameuse
32,951 corpus weight
- ramoneur
ramoneur
32,950 corpus weight
- Ramzy
Ramzy
32,949 corpus weight
- raza
raza
32,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ramoneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ramoneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.mɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ramoneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ramoneur is uncommon French at frequency #67,051 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.mɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
ramoneur has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ramoneur, spelled R-A-M-O-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier est de ramoner les cheminées.
- 2Synonyme de tanagre du cerfeuil (papillon).
- 3Partisan de Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ramoneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un petit ramoneur.
Il était noir comme un ramoneur.
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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