relieur
\ʁə.ljœʁ\
The verdict
“relieur” is uncommon French (frequency #71,867 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,867
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artisan dont le métier est de relier les livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relieur · relieur · French
relieur · rank #71,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relent
Nearest frequency peer: relent (-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 « relieur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- relayent
relayent
28,137 corpus weight
- relectures
relectures
28,136 corpus weight
- relent
relent
28,135 corpus weight
- relieur
relieur
28,134 corpus weight
- relâchez
relâchez
28,133 corpus weight
- remplaçons
remplaçons
28,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « relieur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ljœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « relieur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
relieur is uncommon French at frequency #71,867 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ljœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Artisan dont le métier est de relier les livres.".
relieur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is relieur, spelled R-E-L-I-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Artisan dont le métier est de relier les livres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relieur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À sa propagande de quartier, il alliait une action incessante dans les ateliers du boulevard Masséna. Il avait puissamment resserré les liens moraux qui unissaient à la C. G. T. les typographes, les minervistes et les relieurs de Delaborde.
Pas de bol : à deux reprises, les 16 mars et 19 avril, Bertrand, qui travaille à son compte comme relieur, se fait flasher par un radar automatique pour un petit excès de vitesse alors qu’il livre un client.
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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