rataconneur
The verdict
“rataconneur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ravaudeur de souliers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rataconneur · rataconneur · French
rataconneur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | rataconneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rataconneur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ravaudeur de souliers.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rataconneur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rataconneur, spelled R-A-T-A-C-O-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ravaudeur de souliers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rataconneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et premierement des gens soubmis à Saturne, comme gens despourveuz d'argent, ialoux, resveurs, mal pensans, soubsonneux, preneurs de taulpes, usuriers, rachapteurs de rentes, tyreurs de rivetz, tanneurs de cuirs, tuilliers, fondeurs de cloches, composeurs d'empruns, rataconneurs de bobelins, gens melancholicques, na'uront en ceste année tout ce qu'ilz vou…
Mais, en ce que il met sus on deffendeur que il feut rataconneur, tyrofageux, et goildronneur de mommye, qui na esté en brimballant treuué vray, comme bien la debattu ledict deffendeur, la court le condamne en troys verrassees de caillebottes assimentees, prelorelitantees et guaudepisees comme est la coustume du pays, enuers ledict deffendeur, payables a…
Synonyms
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.